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Demonstration Day 2
31 March, 2008 19:44
Jules Verne ATV Demonstration Day 2 gallery
We've posted a series of cool screenshots taken during today's hugely successful activities. Click on 'Full story' to access. -- Daniel
15 comments | "Jules Verne ATV Demonstration Day 2 gallery"
31-03-2008 • 20:00:04
Thanks for the rapid distribution of the screenshots! Watching the approach and departure, even in a small computer window, was great and reminded me of "2001" - so it is nice to have some souvenirs already! :-)
31-03-2008 • 20:13:36
Watched the whole sequence of ATV approach to ISS. It was amazing!
Feel a little bit disappointed that the UK were not more directly involved in the project which so far has been a great success.
At least there was the connection with EADS Astrium although Germany and France were the players this time.
31-03-2008 • 20:28:59
That was a really beautiful ballet of Jules Verne.
I hope that i'm wrong but on some close views of the ATV i had the feeling that there was some lose insulation at one side of the forward compartiment. Anybody has an idea?
31-03-2008 • 21:43:49
An update has just be published on the ESA website: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMSGE5QGEF_0.html
31-03-2008 • 21:30:51
An hour ago I have seen, even in the lights of Warsaw, ATV when it was chased by ISS. It was a great view.
I couldn't see NASA docking on TV. Is there any possibility to see it via internet? Could anyone send me a link?
31-03-2008 • 22:02:18
check the NasaTV videofiles program. They replay, every hour or so, a video of the event.
31-03-2008 • 22:02:51
What is "ESA Docking Video System"?
I know about Russian camera onboard of SM which is used by crew and by ground specialists to monitor aproach.
02-04-2008 • 16:29:49
The ESA Docking Video System is a join project developed with ESA, RSC_E, Televidiena St. Peterbutgand NASA, under ESA directives, founding and technical specifications to provide an end-to-end digital path from the ESA encoder down to the consoles in MCC_M. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in more for technical details.
fabio.sintoni@esa.int
31-03-2008 • 22:53:39
After days of cloudy skies I finally got the opportunity to watch the pair of spacecraft fly over tonight... and what a brilliant sight it was! At magnitudes of -0.6 and -2.5 they were the brightest objects in the sky over Delft, the Netherlands.
It did amaze me how big the distance was between the two craft. I thought 39 km would look a lot closer at that altitude, but the distance was remarkable.
31-03-2008 • 23:16:14
have been outside and seen the atv in front of the ISS, first time we have seen both.
fantastic
31-03-2008 • 23:37:06
Daniel. Thanks for keeping us all informed and great work today. I saw ATV go over England tonight a few seconds ahead of ISS and managed to get a few photos. Here's a stack as the two spacecraft flew almost overhead from here: http://www.theastronomer.org/misc/atv-iss_20080331_ndj.jpg. They were a bit further apart than I expected.
01-04-2008 • 13:00:16
Wow, nice! And indeed they look further apart than I would expect. But if they are doing 27000km/h, in 2 sec they move 15km, so their distance of 39km is covert in 2,6 sec. Right? Fast!
01-04-2008 • 00:40:58
Thanks for the screenshots. Congratulations to the whole team and good luck for Thursday!
02-04-2008 • 16:47:03
Go here to watch ATV video replays:-
http://www.space-multimedia.nl.eu.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3532&Itemid=1
03-04-2008 • 08:27:59
Could you explain to me why the ISS camera's see in the approach the ATV Jules Verne "Upside down"?
I saw it again yesterday in the transmission of the ATV VNR.
Good luck today from Estec.