Earlier this week, the team continued testing Sentinel-1A’s battery, which they completed later in the afternoon. All was as it should be.
On Wednesday, we focused on software – and we’ve finished uploading the software and databases to the satellite, which finalises the flight software. This marks the end of another step as it is the last job before Sentinel-1A is packed and moved for fuelling.
So, with some important tasks ticked off, the team took up the offer of a visit to the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) project team. ATV carries supplies to the International Space Station and team are preparing for the next launch, which is scheduled for July.
With the ATV team. (ESA–B. v/d Elst)
The team gave us a really good overview of ATV, not only about the current craft, but also about the past four missions. Anyway, …. back to work ….. and we continued with some checks before packing up the satellite to moved for fuelling.
Sentinel-1A with a shield protecting the radar antenna. (ESA–B. v/d Elst)
At the end of the day, we reciprocated and invited the ATV team over to take a look at our baby. Ramón Torres, ESA’s Sentinel-1 Project Manager, told them all about our mission and the other Sentinel satellites that will serve the Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.
Post from ESA’s Sentinel-1A launch campaign team, French Guiana, 13 March 2014
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Dear ESA colleagues, the Blog is really giving an excellent perspective of what’s going on over there. By the next week TAS-I Team will be completely deployed toward last steps of Launch Campaign.
With my best appreciation to all of ESA, TAS-I, AIRBUS, RUAG team members working in French Guyana.
Claudio Bruno, TAS-I S1 Program Director