The #Sentinel2Go event programme is complete!

Please find below a handy, concise version of the full programme at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, on 6 and 7 March 2017. More information will be provided to participants arrival.   

Part 1 – 6 March 14:00 or 15:00 CET until 01:00 CET (7 March)

CET

Event

14:00 Group A & B & C arrive ESOC Main Gate
15:00 Group D arrives ESOC Main Gate
15:00-18:00 Guided tours: Behind-the-scene at ESOC mission control facilities
17:00 Meet & Greet with ESA Operations and Earth observation experts
Welcome to mission control by Paolo Ferri, ESA Head of Mission Operations
19:00 Dinner at Braustüb’l restaurant
22:00 Pre-launch briefing
Thomas Ormston, ESA Operations Engineer
23:00 Screening: Home, by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
00:30 Screening: Fabrica video & short talk with producers/composer
Live electronic music performance – sounds of ESA in space
01:00 Pause, coffee

 

Part 2 – 7 March 01:00 CET until 07:00 CET

CET

Event

01:30 Moderated programme start
01:36 GO/NOGO update from Flight Operations Director Pier Paolo Emanuelli
01:38 Welcome 
Rolf Densing, ESA Director of Operations
Philippe Goudy ESA Head of Earth Observation Projects
01:45 GO/NOGO roll call in the Main Control Room
Flight Operations Director Pier Paolo Emanuelli
01:47 Sentinel-2 mission overview
Bianca Hörsch, ESA Sentinel-2 Mission Manager
01:51 Presentations on Land and Food (Land corner)
Marcus Sindram, GAF
Sophie Bontemps UCL
Christoph J Kellner, visual artist
Selma Cherchali, CNES
Anne Schucknecht, JRC
Mátyás M. Rada, ETC/ULS
Riazuddin Kawsar, Spacenus
Carmen Tawalika, Mundialis
02:15 Update from the Main Control Room
Deputy Flight Operations Director Juan Piñeiro
02:17 ‘Spaceship Earth’
ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter
02:21 Presentations on Space Tech & Business (Tech corner)
Tanja Nemetzade, Airbus DS
José Morales, ESA
Miguel Such-Taboada, ESA
Ferran Gascon, ESA
Olivier Colin, ESA
02:36 About the Vega launcher
Davide Nicolini, ESA
02:39 Follow live coverage from Kourou launch site, French Guiana
Final countdown
02:49:24 LIFT OFF Vega ascent phase
02:58 ‘Spaceship Earth’
ESA astronaut Thomas Reiter
03:01 Presentations on City and Society (City corner)
Juliane Huth, DLR/DFD
Clémence Kenner, SIRS
Sara Aparício, ESA
03:12 European Commission
András Roboz, EU Commission
03:16 Presentations on Space Tech & Business (Tech corner)
Sascha Heising, FabSpace 2.0
Hinnerk Gildhoff, SAP 
Grega Milcinski, Sinergise
03:24 Update from the Main Control Room
Deputy Flight Operations Director Juan Piñeiro
03:26 Emergency and Science 
Emanuele Barreca, EU Commission
03:29 Presentations on Sea and Coast (Sea corner)
Craig Donlon, ESA
Anne O’Carroll, Eumetsat
Lionel Zawadzki, CLS
Vittorio Brando, CNR
Sara Aparício, ESA
Bianca Hörsch, ESA
03:43 Follow live coverage from Kourou launch site, French Guiana
03:47:21 Separation
Sentinel-2B in free flight
03:47:44 Acquisition of signals
Sentinel-2B phones home
03:48 Update from the Main Control Room
Flight Operations Director Pier Paolo Emanuelli
03:51 Success speeches
Luc Fabreguettes, Arianespace Vega Project Manager
Jan Woerner, ESA Director General
András Roboz, EU Commission
Davide Niccolini, ESA
Bianca Hörsch, ESA
Rolf Densing, ESA
Philippe Goudy, ESA
04:00 End of moderated event
  Musical interlude followed by breakfast
  Main event room activities continue to end of #Sentinel2Go at 07:00

Please note: Programme is subject to change