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News and updates from the European Space Agency's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Primary Format : News Language : German Also Listed as: City : Darmstadt State/Province : Unknown Country : Germany Region : EU User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of ESOC Audio News Podcasts Methings.com listings of ESOC Audio News Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Columbus delivered to KSC Bernardo Patti, ESA's project manager for the Columbus laboratory - one of Europe's main contributions to the International Space Station - talks about the module's transatlantic journey from Bremen, in Germany, to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, the United States.ESApod audio programme Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craters revealed Geology, evolution and even the age of rocky planets and moons can be traced down by the study of impact craters - planetary scars left by the bombardment of asteroids and comets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An asteroid named ESA Since the beginning of this year, a new name appears in the list of the known asteroids that inhabit our Solar System. The name is 'ESA', which stands for 'European Space Agency'. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Via broadband from the Arctic Explorer Marc Cornelissen describes challenges of Arctic expedition from Greenland Ice Cap. With him are six students from the Climate Change College helping with ESA’s CryoSat-2 validation campaign. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Venus As Venus Express arrives at its namesake destination, ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier discusses the enigmatic planet and muses on its beauty and fascinating planetary evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Thoughts on Venus As Venus Express arrives at its namesake destination, ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier discusses the enigmatic planet and muses on its beauty and fascinating planetary evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drama in mission control ESAPod goes to the heart of Venus Express and meets with a veteran ESA operations engineer in the mission control centre. The large, well-equipped Main Control Room enables flight controllers to work as a focussed team during critical events and gives them the central facilities they need to communicate with support teams worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Drama in mission control ESAPod goes to the heart of Venus Express and meets with a veteran ESA operations engineer in the mission control centre. The large, well-equipped Main Control Room enables flight controllers to work as a focussed team during critical events and gives them the central facilities they need to communicate with support teams worldwide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ears to the sky Venus Express is being telecommanded via the 35-meter deep-space station in Cebreros, Spain -- the newest station to join ESA's global ESTRACK network. Cebreros communicates at X-band Gigaherz radio frequencies, far higher than commercial FM radio frequencies and similar to the ultrahigh frequencies used by mobile phones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ears to the sky Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pathways in space Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Critical manoeuvres "If something goes wrong, it could either fly by Venus or hit the planet." The Venus Express Project Manager, Don McCoy, recently spoke to ESAPod on the intense preparations for the critical April 11th orbit insertion. He says ESA mission control teams are well prepared for arrival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wavelength windows Gathering data from above Venus' thick atmosphere is very difficult. A remarkable series of spectral windows allow Venus Express instruments to 'see' through to the surface. The existence of these spectral windows was unknown until the early 1980s when they were discovered, as many key scientific phenomena are, by chance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pathways in space Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Critical manoeuvres "If something goes wrong, it could either fly by Venus or hit the planet." The Venus Express Project Manager, Don McCoy, recently spoke to ESAPod on the intense preparations for the critical April 11th orbit insertion. He says ESA mission control teams are well prepared for arrival. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wavelength windows Gathering data from above Venus' thick atmosphere is very difficult. A remarkable series of spectral windows allow Venus Express instruments to 'see' through to the surface. The existence of these spectral windows was unknown until the early 1980s when they were discovered, as many key scientific phenomena are, by chance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Volcanoes and lava flows Earth's surface has been renewed over the eons by plate tectonics, volcanism and other processes. But Venus does not appear to have tectonic plate activity. What is certain is that the surface of Venus has been shaped by deformation of the crust and volcanic activity. Venus volcanism indicates that, at least in the past, the crust was laying on a liquid mantle, as on Earth. The key question is, are volcanoes still active on V ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Volcanoes and lava flows Earth's surface has been renewed over the eons by plate tectonics, volcanism and other processes. But Venus does not appear to have tectonic plate activity. What is certain is that the surface of Venus has been shaped by deformation of the crust and volcanic activity. Venus volcanism indicates that, at least in the past, the crust was laying on a liquid mantle, as on Earth. The key question is, are volcanoes still active on Venus today? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science from Above In Part 5 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we speak with Dr Gerhard Schwehm about the instruments onboard Venus Express and how scientific data can be gathered by planetary missions remotely from above. (Note: Part 4 will be posted in a couple of days.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science from Above In Part 5 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we speak with Dr Gerhard Schwehm about the instruments onboard Venus Express and how scientific data can be gathered by planetary missions remotely from above. (Note: Part 4 will be posted in a couple of days.) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alien greenhouse Venus suffers from a runaway Greenhouse Effect responsible for transforming Earth's near-twin into one of the Solar System's most hellish places. Venus Express aims to unlock the mysteries behind this atmospheric collapse and gather data that scientists will use to better understand the Earth and Mars -- and whether life could exist in other solar systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alien greenhouse Venus suffers from a runaway Greenhouse Effect responsible for transforming Earth's near-twin into one of the Solar System's most hellish places. Venus Express aims to unlock the mysteries behind this atmospheric collapse and gather data that scientists will use to better understand the Earth and Mars -- and whether life could exist in other solar systems. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amateur eyes on a hot planet In Part 2 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we cover the Venus Amateur Observing Project, a unique proposal to engage amateur astronomers in observing Venus. The aim is to help scientists validate Venus Express data and gather scientifically useful images to complement the spacecraft's observations of the planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amateur eyes on a hot planet In Part 2 of ESA's special Venus Express Podcast series, we cover the Venus Amateur Observing Project, a unique proposal to engage amateur astronomers in observing Venus. The aim is to help scientists validate Venus Express data and gather scientifically useful images to complement the spacecraft's observations of the planet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The passion of Venus Venus, the 'Morning Star', is our closest planetary neighbour. Similar to Earth in size and mass, scientists once thought it should be a lot like our planet. Instead, Venus is entirely different, hidden by dense clouds of noxious gases, with a crushing surface pressure and burning-hot temperatures. Why did a planet apparently so similar to Earth evolve in a way so radically different over the last four thousand million years? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integral views the Earth Integral is ESA's 4-year-old orbiting astrophysics observatory, and is designed to look upwards into deep space to observe some of the universe's most violent sources, including exploding supernova stars and black holes. Recently, spacecraft controllers reoriented integral to look down in a unique Earth observation campaign designed in part to study what happens when the Earth's disk blocks the high-energy background radiatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integral views the Earth Integral is ESA's 4-year-old orbiting astrophysics observatory, and is designed to look upwards into deep space to observe some of the universe's most violent sources, including exploding supernova stars and black holes. Recently, spacecraft controllers reoriented integral to look down in a unique Earth observation campaign designed in part to study what happens when the Earth's disk blocks the high-energy background radiation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA Director General meets the press ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain met the press at ESA headquarters in Paris this morning to take stock of ESA's 2005 activities and announce the main events for the upcoming year (voice of English translator).Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Year After: Sounds of Alien Winds January 14th is the first anniversary of Huygens' decent to Titan. The mission is one of the Top 10 major scientific achievements of 2005 according to the prestigious US journal Science. In today's audio programme, we review the Huygens mission, speak with scientists and listen to audio recorded during the probe's descent. Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA Provides Unique Satellite Delivery Service Europe's newest weather satellite, MSG-2, will be launched on 21 December 2005. ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, will provide a custom satellite delivery service to EUMETSAT, handing over the spacecraft upon completion of the critical launch and early orbit phase. Interview with John Dodsworth and Nigel Head, Flight Operations Directors for the A and B mission control teams. Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA Provides Unique Satellite Delivery Service Europe's newsest weather satellite, MSG-2, will be launched on 21 December 2005. ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, will provide a custom satellite delivery service to EUMETSAT, handing over the spacecraft upon completion of the critical launch and early orbit phase. Interview with John Dodsworth and Nigel Head, Flight Operations Directors for the A and B mission control teams Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA Ministerial Council Press Conference The ESA Ministerial Council took place on 5-6 December in Berlin. Ministers from ESA's 17 MemberStates discussed important new space programmes in the areas of Earth observation, planetary exploration, exploitation of the International Space Station and European launchers. Participants in the press conference were: Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Chairman of the ESA Ministerial Council; Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; and Dietmar Wittig, Chairman o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA Ministerial Council Press Conference The ESA Ministerial Council took place on 5-6 December in Berlin. Ministers from ESA's 17 Member States discussed important new space programmes in the areas of Earth observation, planetary exploration, exploitation of the International Space Station and European launchers. Participants in the press conference were: Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs and Chairman of the ESA Ministerial Council; Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; and Dietmar Wittig, Chairman ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Huygens and Mars Express Science Highlights - Part 1 First of a special two-part programme reporting from ESA headquarters in Pariswhere today the European Space Agency held a press conference presenting the latest science highlights from Huygens and Mars Express. The press event included senior scientists and principal investigators who announced the latest analysis and findings from these missions, two of the most successful space probes ever launched. Part 1 reports on today's news from Huygens and includes interviews with Huygens principl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Huygens and Mars Express Science Highlights - Part 2 Second of a special two-part programme reporting from ESA headquarters in Paris where today the European Space Agency held a press conference presenting the latest science highlights from Huygens and Mars Express. Part 2 reports on Mars Express.Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Express launch: ESOC mission control audio loop At 04:33 CET this morning, Venus Express was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan; mission control operated from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Darmstadt, Germany. Today's Podcast includes audio clips from the communications loop used by flight controllers and includes the Flight Operations Director's pre-launch GO-NOGO "Roll-Call" at 03:38 CET as well as an interview with Ground Segment Mana ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Express launch: ESOC mission control audio loop At 04:33 CET this morning, Venus Express was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan; mission control operated from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Darmstadt, Germany. Today's Podcast includes audio clips from the communications loop used by flight controllers and includes the Flight Operations Director's pre-launch GO-NOGO "Roll-Call" at 03:38 CET as well as an interview with Ground Segment Manager Manfred Warhaut from the Main Control Room. Venus Express is n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SSETI Express: power problem Since Friday morning, the ground control station in Aalborg has not had any contact with SSETI Express. Thorough analysis over the weekend indicates that a failure in the electrical power system on board the spacecraft is preventing the batteries from charging, resulting in a shutdown of the satellite.Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SSETI Express in safe mode; CubeSats deployed At 22:20 CEST last night, SSETI Express went into a safe mode due to an undervoltage caused by battery charging problems. The operations team is working actively to resume nominal operations of the satellite and is receiving tremendous help in the process from the amateur radio community.Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First Internet-built student satellite successfully launched SSETI Express, a low Earth orbit spacecraft designed and built by European university students under the supervision of ESA's Education Department, was successfully launched this morning at 08:52 CEST from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a Russian Kosmos 3M launcher. At 10:29 CEST this morning, the ground control centre at the University in Aalborg (DK) received the first signals from the satellite.Grab this podcast! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Venus Express preliminary investigations bring encouraging news Following the announcement of the Venus Express launch delay due to particulate contamination found in the launcher fairing where the spacecraft was installed, ESA staff and industry teams have started an inspection of the spacecraft. This recovery 'investigation procedure' has so far revealed a spacecraft in good status. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website SMART-1 in new orbit The SMART-1 flight control team at ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, have been very active for the past several weeks, repositioning the craft into a new orbit around the Moon. The requirement for the manoeuvre stems from the highly successful mission having been extended by one year until August 2006, necessitating using all onboard fuel to compensate for natural orbital drift. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESOC's 'Skunk Works' Strong on Innovation Today's audiocast looks at some of the less-widely-known activities taking place at ESOC with a focus on the Mission Control Technologies Unit, sometimes referred to as ESOC's 'Skunk Works.' Alessandro Donati, unit head, talks about his team's activities and how the unit is using innovation and well-thought-out processes to deliver tools and technologies to make mission controlling more efficient and effective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website ESA operations at 30 years In this audio report, Gaele Winters reviews highlights from past mission operations with a focus on the Agency's Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. He also describes ESOC's role in the Galileo navigation project, how the European network of centres is evolving in support of Galileo and how ESOC will support future activities including the joint Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) initiative. For background details and links to missions mentioned in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cryosat flight team in countdown to launch In September 2005, ESA will launch Cryosat, a satellite that will measure the actual thickness of the Earth's marine and continental ice sheets and obtain data directly related to global warming. Kate Adamson, a Cryosat operations engineer, talks about the flight simulation campaign, the ground segment readiness review and the growing excitement at ESA's Space Operations Centre. (MP3 5.1MB, 7:52) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website