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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: 2015-06-14
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Today (20/06), the MSG-4 fueling with MON (oxidizer) and MMH (Fuel) has been successfully completed at ca 15:00 in the S5B facility. This important milestone in the Launch Campaign has been achieved by the highly qualified ThalesAleniaSpace team. A family picture of this outstanding team including the ESA support has been made for this special occasion. The Thales fueling team, from left to right:. Maurice, Gérald, Jean-Pierre, Eric, Eric, Sébastien, Stéphane, Ferran (ESA). C24) MON filling completed.
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: 2015-04-26
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C5) Inspection of the Solar Arrays. After disassembling from the Spacecraft, Solar Arrays (SA) stand now on a dedicated jig in the S1 clean room. An overview on the S1 clean room activities on 02/05/2015. The black lion tamarin and the mysterious man. During the MSG-3 Launch campaign, we had a chance to observe a Red Handed Tamarin in action! Post dated June 10th, 2012). Apparently this type of small apes were known in Europe as early as the XVIth century as proven by the detail of the painting below.
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: (C38) Post Scriptum-1 from Darmstadt
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C38) Post Scriptum-1 from Darmstadt. This is a view of the control room in ESOC where these operations have taken place from 15/07/2015 to 24/07/2015. The picture below is not extracted from the Muppet Show. Now a picture of the dream team who completed the work during this crucial but successful ten days:. 1st row (left to right): Stéphane, Hans-Jürgen, Bernard, Stéphane, Odile, Jacques, Maurice,. 2nd row (from left to right): Stefano, Ferran, Francesca, Chiara, Donato. Long life to the MSG family and g...
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: 2015-05-31
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Exhibition in Musée de l' Espace. On 05/06 in Kourou, the Musée de lEspace located at the entrance of the Centre Spatial Guyanais opened a temporary exhibition to the public called Les pieds dans lart. Feet in art). Many local schools were invited to exhibit works realised during the year by the pupils on this subject. Nothing to do with space but art and engineering are not antagonistic domains and young creative artists may become tomorrow innovative engineers. C21) MSG-4 transfered to fuelling facility.
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: X - Forever spinning… Maelströms
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X - Forever spinning… Maelströms. Powerful phenomena observed in the nature such as volcanos, storms, tsunamis, hurricanes… have always been an endless source of inspiration for artists. Is one example among hundred others. The wave has not the exact shape of a vortex but gives however a quite scary impression: its power and its height are about to "swallow" the long (fishing? 1760-1849), The great wave. Ca 1830/34 (from the series 36 views of Mount Fuji),. Victoria an Albert Museum, London. Illustration...
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: 2015-05-10
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VA-224 - Launcher Status (1). An Ariane 5 ECA rocket will put MSG-4 in orbit. The VA-224/L-578 (i.e. the 224th of an Ariane 5 rocket and the 78th of on Ariane 5 rocket) launch will be a double launch with StarOne C4. In upper position and MSG-4 in lower position. An overview of the launcher status on 15/05/2015 is given below. Credits for all pictures: ESA-Arianespace. 1-Transfer of EAP (Solid Propellant Booster) to BIL (Launcher Assembly Building). 2-EPC (Cryogenic Core Stage) integration in the BIL.
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MSG-4 Launch Campaign: VA-224 Main Flight events
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VA-224 Main Flight events. For those interested by the important launcher events after the H0, the chronology of the VA-224 mission is provided below:. H0 1 sec, EPC (Etage Propulsion Cryogénique/ Main Cryogenic Stage) ignition. H0 7,05 sec, EAP1&2 (Etage d'Accéleration à poudre/Solid Booster 1 and 2) ignition. H0 7,5 sec, Lift-off. H0 2 min 21 sec, EAP separation. H0 3 min 43 sec, Fairing jettison. H0 8 min 58 sec first stage separation. H0 24 min 53 sec, Injection. H0 28 min 19 sec, StarOneC4 separation.
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CryoSat-2 Launch Campaign: 28 février 2010
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Samedi 6 mars 2010. Few elements of Kazak culture. While Baikonur street names widely remind the Russian heroes of the space conquest, 2 streets only (TBC) refer to Kakak figures:. Аба́й Кунанба́ев,. Or Abai Kunanbaiev Avenue (one of the three largest avenues of Baikonur city with Gagarin and Korolev Avenues). A commemorative statue in front of a carved wall celebrates the "father" of the Kazakh literature (2nd half of the XIXth century). River and known as Коркут. The beautiful carpets are not produced ...
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CryoSat-2 Launch Campaign: 21 février 2010
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Samedi 27 février 2010. Gagarin is likely the most celebrated hero of Baikonur. Among all of sculptures, paintings, pins, posters, plates, flags, etc. there is one representation in particular which draws our attention: the Gagarin Monument. Located between the Town Hall and the Parc of Peace. The sculpture, about seven meters high, shows a standing man with his arms raised to the sky as a sign of victory or greeting. As a simple rule of body language, he invites us to do the same. After spending some ti...
