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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:

View the full archive of ESOC Audio News Satellite navigation system guides visually-impaired pedestrians Seen from a distance, a blind man guided by his dog in the streets of Madrid seems quite sure of his way. In fact, he is not listening to music with his headphones but receiving directions to his destination: "turn to the right, turn to the left, continue straight ahead…" Thanks to a mobile phone combined with a position receiver and a voice synthesizer he can walk confidently through the city while being guided by satellite. Developed by ESA, with the Spanish firm GMV Sistemas, this device ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 ISS update 2006 For over five years, astronauts from around the world have been living and working together 400 kilometres above the Earth on board the biggest outpost ever built in space. The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the largest research projects ever and involves Europe, the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. Over the next few years, ISS operations will combine further growth and exploitation. Europe's involvement means thousands of engineers and scientists participate in leadin ... 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 ISD2006, Industry Space Days at ESTEC This year's ISD2006 brings together more than 700 representatives from small and medium enterprises (SMEs), system integrators, institutions, product suppliers and service providers to allow them to identify tomorrow's industrial strategies and business opportunities within the sector. Focus is on SMEs in Europe and Canada, and improving their involvement in space activities and fostering cross-fertilisation within the space sector. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Venus Express powers into orbit Confirmation that Venus Express had successfully entered orbit came from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Germany, today at 11:12 CEST. After a tense engine burn and blackout while the spacecraft swung behind Venus, mission controllers re-established the radio telemetry link with Venus Express marking successful arrival at the planet. 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