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| Salut ! - Evidemment, la photo date d'hier. - Je ne veux pas déranger les contrôleurs de mission. |
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| Sur le tableau de contrôle, tout s'égrène tip-top. |
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| Le SFOF. - Photo : rke |
[Pasadena (CA), Monday, July 4, 2016, rke] – Bienvenue au Space Flight
Operations Facility (SFOF). C’est ici que se contrôle les communications du JPL
et de là que la NASA assure le suivi des ses sondes interplanétaires à travers
un réseau baptisé Deep Space Network (DSN). Le SFOF surveille et contrôle toute
l’exploration de l’espace interplanétaire et profond de la NASA et d’autres
agences spatiales internationales, et ce, depuis 1963. Ce centre a également
agi comme un centre de communication de sauvegarde pour les missions Apollo. Il
a été déclaré monument historique national en 1985 et figure sur le registre
national des lieux historiques. L’endroit a géré en 2012 22 vaisseaux spatiaux
et s’occupe encore du traitement des signaux de Voyager 1 qui a quitté le
système solaire.
Et pour suivre la mission Juno, la NASA a
innové avec un outil extraordinaire avec un logiciel au doux nom de Eyes. Il
s’agit d’une simulation réelle dans laquelle on peut suivre, comme si on y
était, l’évolution de la sonde, même en 3D, l’application est téléchargeable
sur le site :
De plus, on peut voyager même vers les
planètes extrasolaires. Fascinant !
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| Le desk de la mission Cassini. Photo : rke |
Fascinating:
digital eyes to travel with Juno as if you were there
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| Photo : rke |
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La plaque commémorative.
- photo : rke |
Welcome to the Space Flight Operations
Facility (SFOF). It’s the heart of the JPL control communications and where
NASA keeps track of interplanetary probes through a network called Deep Space
Network (DSN). The SFOF and all exploration control of interplanetary and deep
space for NASA and other international space agencies, and so, since 1963. The
center also acted as a backup communications center for the Apollo missions. It
was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985 and is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places. The place has managed in 2012 22 spacecrafts and
still handles the processing of Voyager 1 signals that left the solar system.
And to follow the Juno mission, NASA has
innovated with special software tool with the sweet name of Eyes. This is a
real simulation in which we can follow, as if you were there, the evolution of
the probe, even in 3D, the application is downloaded from the website :
In addition, you can travel even to extrasolar
planets. Fascinating !
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| The SFOF entry. - Photo : rke |
For Space
Fan :
If you can't be at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory – or in orbit around Jupiter – for Jupiter Orbit Insertion, the next
best place to be might be in front of your computer watching NASA's Eyes on the
Solar System app. Or, you could be watching NASA TV commentary on July 4 –
which not only includes interviews and live views from mission control – but
has a presentation about Eyes on the Solar System.
Eyes On The Solar System has developed a
module dedicated to the Juno mission to Jupiter. In this online, interactive
visualization, you can ride along with the Juno spacecraft in real-time as it
arrives at Jupiter on the 4th of July, or travel backward or forward in time
from launch to its planned fiery end of mission in February of 2018.
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| Jason S. Craid, Visualization Producer with his numerical eyes to explore Jupiter. - Photo : rke |
