Thomas Reiter, très confiant quelques minutes avant l'"amarssissage". Photo : rke |
A la conférence de presse, derniers coups d'oeil sur les dossiers. Photo : rke |
L’ESA a également apporté son soutien inconditionnel lors de
cet atterrissage américain, grâce à son réseau au sol d’antennes de 35 mètres
de diamètre pour l’espace lointain, lequel a assuré des fonctions de secours «
à chaud » au cas où il y aurait eu une défaillance du réseau de poursuite dans
l’espace lointain de la NASA. Le centre de l’ESOC est en pleine effervescence.
La tension monte d’un cran, nous sommes à une minute de l’atterrissage. Sérieux
comme des papes, VIP et journalistes sont sur les dents. Thomas Reiter,
directeur Vols habités et opérations à l’ESA ainsi que chef d’établissement à
l’ESOC – et ex-astronaute allemand – à l’air plutôt serein, lui… (à suivre)
My MRL launch in NASA coverage : click here
ESA was also involved ! Photo : rke |
SPECIAL MARS :
the unconditional support of ESA for the new NASA martian feat
Thomas Reiter. A smile for us, before the "Marsin...ding"... Photo : rke |
No, I didn’t comment this stunning feat of NASA Mars landing
from Los Angeles, but from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the
European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt (D). Why? Because, look the other way,
Europe has also its rank in this success. If Curiosity comes on this historic
day to land on Mars (Monday August 6 at 7:31 (Paris time), the Old Europe and intrepid
Helvetians can be proud to have contributed to this success. First, because
Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26 (see
my trip in USA) by the imposing American rocket Atlas V, a little
competition with the European Ariane 5 rocket, but after which Swiss
caps protected when Curiosity lift-off. Then, and taht is very important, besause
ESA has been involved in the critical phase entry descent and landing of the
laboratory MRL
through its Mars Express orbiter, which has made a continuing operations
complex. So Mars
Express is indeed ideally positioned to record signals from the lander of
NASA. So, it has helped scientists to reconstruct the input profile and
landing, which enabled them to deepen their knowledges of the of Mars
atmosphere.
Attention please ! Touch mars in a few minutes. Photo : rke |
ESA has also provided an unconditional support during this american
landing, through its network of ground antennas of 35 meter diameter deep
space, which has provided emergency functions « hot » in case it
there would have been a failure of the tracking network in deep space by NASA.
ESOC is booming now. The tension up a notch, we are about one minute from Mars landing.
" Serious as popes, VIPs and journalists are on gristle. Thomas Reiter,
Director of Human Spaceflight and operations at ESA and still head establishment
at ESOC - and former German astronaut – looks rather quiet... (more following)
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