Finding ATV in the sky
Updated 1530CEST 4 June 2013 The flight control team at the joint ESA/CNES ATV Control Centre will assume control of the mission once Albert Einstein separates from the final stage of the Ariane 5...
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Finding ATV in the sky – ground track & sky chart
With a bit of luck and clear skies on the night of 5/6 June, backyard astronomers in W. Europe have a pretty good chance to spot ATV-4 during the vessel’s second orbital pass after lift off. Launch is...
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Guide to photographing ATV Albert Einstein from your backyard
Today’s post was contributed by Marco Langbroek, based in Leiden, the Netherlands, and provides an excellent, in-depth guide to non-technical folks on how you, too, can capture ATV-4 in orbit this...
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ESA sponsors WT1190F observations
Editor’s note: We received word late this afternoon that ESA’s Space Situational Awareness (SSA) Programme office will sponsor a European team to join an airborne observation campaign to track and...
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