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Engineers at OHB, Germany, inspect Plato’s newly installed 24 cameras on the spacecraft’s optical bench, the structure that keeps all cameras firmly pointed in the right direction.
Together the 24 identical, ultra-sensitive eyes will stare at a large area of the sky and hunt for terrestrial planets. Two more so-called ‘fast cameras’, will be installed in the coming weeks.
Plato will use its cameras simultaneously to survey the sky and discover exoplanets that orbit stars similar to our Sun, searching for potentially habitable worlds.
The 24 cameras are arranged in four groups of six elements that have the same field-of-view. The lines of sight of the four groups are offset by an angle of 9.2°. With this arrangement, the cameras can survey a very large area of the sky, more than 2000 square-degrees, at once. The 24 identical cameras will make images every 25 seconds, while the two ‘fast’ cameras will make them every 2.5 seconds.
Each camera is equipped with four CCD light-sensors for a total of 81.4-megapixel images per camera, resulting in two-billion-pixel images for the overall spacecraft. These will be the largest images ever for a space mission.
[Image description: On the left, three people in white overalls, with white masks and caps, are looking at Plato’s instrumentation, on the right of the picture. The engineer in the foreground is indicating in the direction of the space equipment, which appear to be about twice as tall as the people in the picture. It consists of a black four-stepped-platform that supports the cameras. Because of the side view, only 9 out of the 24 installed cameras are visible. The cameras resemble cylinders flaring at the top, not unlike big ice-cream cones. Each cylinder is wrapped in black material; the top flare has a metallic finish and a white lid.]
Credits: ESA – P. Sebirot
Date: 03-19-2021
Location: Bldg 9NW, ISS Mockups
Subject: ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti during Environmental Health Systems (EHS) water operations training.
Photographer: NASA-J.Blair
ID: jsc2021e010822
Deputy Director of Rosaviatsiya (Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport) Alexander Vedernikov conducts a readiness review for the landing of Expedition 53 Commander Randy Bresnik of NASA and Flight Engineers Paolo Nespoli of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017. Bresnik, Nespoli and Ryazanskiy are returning after 139 days in space where they served as members of the Expedition 52 and 53 crews onboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
As part of the East Side Access megaproject, the MTA is building a new concourse for the Long Island Rail Road under Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows progress as of October 2013.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
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Hace unos meses hice una serie con 253 disparos desde un café de Londres, a través del hueco de una silla. Llamé a esa serie Los pasos perdidos. Continúo aquí con la misma idea, aunque en este caso en Madrid.
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Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Excellent views of ESA's New Norcia tracking station, Western Australia, taken by Dylan O'Donnell on 3 August 2015. Credit: D. O'Donnell/ESA - CC BY-SA 3.0
See more of his work via deography.com/
This Envisat radar image, acquired on 5 March 2011, features the Brunt Ice Shelf/Stancomb-Wills Ice Tongue system on the coast of northern Coats Land in east Antarctica. The system is a thin unbounded ice shelf attached to Caird Coast at the eastern margin of the Weddell Sea. The Brunt Ice Shelf (far left) and the Stancomb-Wills Ice Tongue (centre) are connected by a mass of icebergs bound together by up to 50m of extraordinarily thick fast ice and smaller meteoric ice blocks. The ice-covered Lyddan Island is visible to the right of the Stancomb-Wills Ice Tongue. With its 3 narrow arms, the island resembles the tail of a whale.
Credits: ESA
Seen around 11/12 November 2014, as the station provided critical support for the Rosetta #cometlanding Credit: D. Pazos
Segolene Royal, COP21 President, together with Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation; Claudie Haigneré, Advisor to the Director General of ESA; ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet; and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of CNES; at the ESA Pavilion, during the Paris Air and Space Show, on 19 June 2017.
Credit: ESA-Philippe Sebirot
Esa fue la señal que los caballeros cristianos interpretaron como un guiño de la Providencia que les indicaba el lugar donde había de estar Teruel. Y ese fue, por tanto, el lugar elegido. Por eso es por lo que hasta hoy el toro se identifica con Teruel en muchos de sus símbolos: destacadamente, en el escudo, en la bandera y en el monumento que se alza en la plaza que constituye el centro de la ciudad, el famoso Torico.
por peticion popular en mi casa tengo que colgar esta ya me direis
y espero os guste
mirarla pulsando " L " el teclado
The last-ever switch off of the Rosetta Engineering Qualification Model - an Earth-bound twin of the real Rosetta - located at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. Credit: ESA
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS(acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Eight tunnels will allow trains to reach four platforms in two adjacent caverns.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The East Side Access megaproject is connecting the LIRR to a new passenger concourse underneath Grand Central Terminal. This photo shows an update on the status of construction as of June 2013.
This photo shows William Ury, East Side Access' Senior Quality Engineer, at the board where sandhogs and other workers sign in and sign out of the project worksite using brass plates.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin
A gowned technician passes through an air shower to blast off dust and dirt particles before entering the strictly controlled clean room attached to ESTEC’s Life, Physical Sciences and Life Support Laboratory.
This 35 sq. m ‘ISO Class 1’ clean room provides an ultra-clean environment, suitable for working on flight hardware requiring a very high level of cleanliness and sterilisation, such as instruments for Europe’s 2016 and 2018 ExoMars missions.
The clean room is fitted with a dry heat steriliser, ultra-clean gas lines, exhaust line and IT infrastructure, with all its air passing through a two-stage filtering system.
The chamber’s cleanliness is such that it contains less than 10 smoke-sized particles per cubic metre; an equivalent sample of the outside air could well contain millions.
Credit: ESA-Guus Schoonewille
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
The progress of the East Side Access construction in Long Island City, Queens, as of December 20, 2012.
This photo shows work underway on one of the most challenging parts of the entire project: Excavating a tunnel under Northern Boulevard, while simultaneously supporting the overhead roadway, the overhead underground subway (E/M/R), and the elevated subway (N/Q).
To ensure stability, the tunnel was excavated in seven separate horizontal segments, or “drifts." And because the ground is soft at this site and difficult to control during excavation, it was frozen to allow for increased control and rigidity.
Workers had to drive a new set of foundation pilings into the ground to temporarily support the elevated structure during construction. They then jacked up the line a fraction of an inch to shift the weight to the temporary supports, which you can see in some views running vertically through the newly built tunnel. Those supports will be removed after the weight of the elevated subway is shifted back to the walls of the tunnel, which has been engineered to carry the load.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Credits: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Processing: 2di7 & titanio44
The last-ever switch off of the Rosetta Engineering Qualification Model - an Earth-bound twin of the real Rosetta - located at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. Credit: ESA
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Jan Woerner, ESA Director General, presents to Zuhal Demir, Belgian Federal Secretary of State for equal opportunities, people with disabilities, science policy and fighting poverty; the ESA Pavilion, during the Paris Air and Space Show, on 21 June 2017.
Credit: ESA–Manuel Pedoussaut, 2017
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
Esa frase dije cuando veo aparecer en Busdongo la 333.340 procedente de León para hacerse cargo de un bobinero + ealos destino León clasificación
Si alguien quiere que suba la secuencia de maniobra pedirlo por aqui =)