UPDATED WITH EDITED VIDEO FILE – 16.02 20:41 CET
ESA’s lead ATV Mission Director, Kris Capelle, explains what’s happening today at ATV-CC as the mission operations team gets ready for tonight’s Ariane 5 launch. Yesterday’s launch attempt was scrubbed following a measurement anomaly in the liquid oxygen propellant tank of the cryogenic main stage of the Ariane 5 launcher. The new launch time has been set for today, 16 February, at 22:50:55 CET. (Thanks Jari for an excellent video edit!)
Discussion: 2 comments
Fabulous launch of the atv and let me tell you that we saw the trajectory of it east of Santa Maria Island in Azores.
Mr. Capelle, you are a magnificent Mission Leader of a fabulous project that all Europeans are proud of and all Belgians in particular. On behalf of the BFV COSMOS astro-philately club (www.bfvcosmos.be/), I wish you and your team, all possible success and satisfaction in the further development of the project.
With our kindest regards
Fredy Van Gaever
Vice-president
BFV Cosmos