Meanwhile, three-quarters of NASA staff now staying at home
ESA's mission operations centre in Germany has got back to doing interplanetary science after a short stand-down due to COVID-19.
A member of the agency's mission control workforce was diagnosed with the virus but not before coming into contact with approximately 20 colleagues at the Darmstadt site over the course of two days.
Those workers were swiftly quarantined, and the buildings scrubbed, but their sudden disappearance meant challenges for the missions on which they were working: the newly launched Solar Orbiter, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Cluster and Mars Express.
Rather than risk more people potentially being infected, ESA opted to suspend operations on the ..
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