March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
...in flight. A few months later Manfred nominated me to join his team as Spacecraft Operations Manager (SOM). Back in 1996, ESOC had only very limited experience in flying interplanetary probes and no infrastructure at all to support this type of space...
August 2016
Rosetta overcomes major setback
...), which was in the meantime transported and installed at the ESOC premises, where it would stay for the whole duration of...planned, close to the operating limits of various spacecraft units. ESOC Main Control Room during Rosetta LEOP on 2 March 2004. ...
June 2017
Automated or human-operated systems?
... expired. Inside the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) engineers control spacecraft in orbit, manage the global...two-year research project at the European Space Operation Centre (ESOC) on the ‘Human Element and System Resilience’, completed in...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
... from Université Paul Sabatier. Dr Mehran Sarkarati, Head of the Application and Special Projects Data Systems Section at ESOC, where his team is is focussed on mission data systems for CubeSats. Mehran has an interest in introducing modern software...
June 2015
The day Philae landed: how a rough touchdown still made history at the Rosetta Mission
... of failure investigation. Together with the operations team at ESA’s ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, we concluded that commanding the lander to ... at the Lander Control Center were showing people at ESOC celebrating. Yet we were not. The spectators here ...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
...-D). He is currently part of the INTEGRAL-XMM flight operations team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. His ESOC experience includes the Columbus/ISS project and the Cassini/Huygens mission. David has a keen...
