{"id":240259,"date":"2016-03-31T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9ebed5e004afc3ac286d159cb9cbf700"},"modified":"2016-03-31T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T12:08:00","slug":"going-to-space-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240259","title":{"rendered":"Going to space"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nWith liftoff for Sentinel-1B, the next Copernicus mission, just weeks away, teams at ESA\u2019s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, are undergoing intensive training.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-1B is already in French Guiana being prepared for liftoff on 22 April. It will join its twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Europe\u2019s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe satellites each carry an advanced radar for all-weather, day-and-night coverage of Earth\u2019s surface. Working together, they will image the entire planet every six days.\n<\/p>\n

\nSimulations are a crucial aspect of launch preparations at ESOC, training the permanent Flight Control Team together with other teams, including flight dynamics, ground systems, the satellite builder and the project team.\n<\/p>\n

\n\u2018Sims\u2019 often run 8\u201312 hours, with an extensive and detailed debriefing at the end of the day. If a mistake is made, the team repeats the simulation, until they know the process by heart and can react correctly in any situation.\n<\/p>\n

\nTeamwork is honed to a sharp edge, and all the engineers know their role and their own portion of the satellite\u2019s systems \u2013 and they can assist team mates if needed.\n<\/p>\n

\nMore information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ops<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.esa.int\/esoc<\/a>
http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ Sentinel-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\nWith liftoff for Sentinel-1B, the next Copernicus mission, just weeks away, teams at ESA’s ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, are undergoing intensive training.\n<\/p>\n

\nSentinel-1B is already in French Guiana being prepared for liftoff on 22 April. It will join its twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Europe’s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe satellites each carry an advanced radar for all-weather, day-and-night coverage of Earth’s surface. Working together, they will image the entire planet every six days.\n<\/p>\n

\nSimulations are a crucial aspect of launch preparations at ESOC, training the permanent Flight Control Team together with other teams, including flight dynamics, ground systems, the satellite builder and the project team.\n<\/p>\n

\n‘Sims’ often run 8–12 hours, with an extensive and detailed debriefing at the end of the day. If a mistake is made, the team repeats the simulation, until they know the process by heart and can react correctly in any situation.\n<\/p>\n

\nTeamwork is honed to a sharp edge, and all the engineers know their role and their own portion of the satellite’s systems – and they can assist team mates if needed.\n<\/p>\n

\nMore information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ops<\/a>
http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esoc<\/a>
http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ Sentinel-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240260,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240259\/revisions\/240260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}