{"id":10345,"date":"2015-12-05T12:41:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T10:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oewf.org\/en\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2018-08-24T13:57:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T11:57:37","slug":"live-report-from-kourou-lisa-pathfinder-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oewf.org\/en\/2015\/12\/live-report-from-kourou-lisa-pathfinder-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Live report from Kourou: Lisa Pathfinder launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10336\" style=\"width: 222px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_ariane.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10336\" class=\"wp-image-10336 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_ariane-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"OeWF Mitglied &amp;amp; Data Science Officer Roberta Paternesi in Kourou\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_ariane-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_ariane-425x600.jpg 425w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_ariane.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberta Paternesi in Kourou<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Dear \u00d6WF Community!<\/h3>\n<p>I report to you in \u201clive transmission mode\u201d from the tropical beaches of French Guyana in South America, from where, just a few hours ago, a VEGA launcher delivered the new ESA science mission \u201cLisa Pathfinder\u201d into space. I have the privilege to be here for this unique launch campaign as the IT manager for the ESA Science Directorate, the \u201cclient\u201d for the rocket launch. It is my first launch campaign in Kourou, Europe\u2019s space port. As you can imagine, it\u2019s a truly amazing experience.<\/p>\n<p>The night of the launch among people full of professionalism and excitement is something impressive. Tension raises already hours before the scheduled moment of lift-off (which, for our \u201cbaby\u201d, was 01:04:00 local at night, or five in the morning CET). About one hour before the launch, the team accesses the \u201cJupiter\u201d building with the main control room. Parameters are watched from various locations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10332\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kourou_launchcontrol01.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10332\" class=\"wp-image-10332 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kourou_launchcontrol01-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"The main control room for all rocket launches from Kourou\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kourou_launchcontrol01-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kourou_launchcontrol01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kourou_launchcontrol01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main control room for all rocket launches from Kourou<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10338\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_launchcontrol.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10338\" class=\"wp-image-10338 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_launchcontrol-600x440.jpg\" alt=\"Roberta Paternesi (left) with colleagues at the main control room in Kourou\" width=\"600\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_launchcontrol-600x440.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_launchcontrol-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/rpaternesi_launchcontrol.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberta Paternesi (left) with colleagues at the main control room in Kourou<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The launch safety officers are even completely separated from the rest of the team to allow them full concentration and undisturbed decisions in an emergency case. At all times, our eyes go to the screen: still all on \u201cgreen\u201d? Then, one minute before lift-off, I have the privilege to go on the terrace; humid air outside, darkness and low-hanging clouds. Then we hear the \u201cd\u00e9compte final\u201d, the countdown. A bright flash about 5km away and off goes VEGA on her ride. We feel her vibrations for quite a while, although she is already down-range and out of sight. We enter the building while the Brazilian Natal station has taken over signal contact. After the upper stage engine shut-down, we leave to the late-night beach party, of course!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10334\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/launchvega.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10334\" class=\"wp-image-10334 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/launchvega-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Lift-off of Vega rocket with Lisa Pathfinder on bord\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/launchvega-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/launchvega-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oewf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/launchvega.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lift-off of Vega rocket with Lisa Pathfinder on bord<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As one of the OeWF Science Data Officers, I am reminded at many occasions of our work in the OeWF, in particular our Mars mission simulations. MSC (Mission Support Center) atmosphere is all around! Being able to make a direct comparison, I appreciate how professional our own routines have become, in particular for AMADEE-15. \u201cLisa Pathfinder\u201d is now on its way to its final orbital position. From there, it will test precursor technologies for detecting gravitational waves \u2013 postulated by Einstein pretty much 100 years ago in his theory of general relativity. For me, things are a bit more down to Earth: dismantling the special IT infrastructure, closing campaign business, catching a long night flight home.nehmen.<\/p>\n<p>Roberta Paternesi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roberta Paternesi, OeWF member and Data Science Officer reports live from the Lisa Pathfinder launch in Kourou and draws parallels to OeWF Mars Simulations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[519,1222,825,543],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oewf-news","tag-esa-en","tag-kourou-en-2","tag-lisa-pathfinder","tag-rocket-launch"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Live report from Kourou: Lisa Pathfinder launch - 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