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  • Twitter Periscope live from ESA’s mission control centre

    Twitter Periscope live from ESA’s mission control centre

    On 24 April 2016, the mission control team was in the Main Control Room at ESOC, ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, preparing for the liftoff of Soyuz flight VS14. Their job was to assume control of the rocket’s main passenger, the Sentinel-1B radar-sensing satellite.

    In this Periscope, video host Thomas Ormston, a spacecraft operations engineer at ESOC, spoke with some of the team working ‘on console’ to find out details on how they get ready to send a satellite into space.

    NOTE: About 75 minutes after recording this Periscope, the launch countdown was halted due to an an anomaly with the launcher. The countdown was restarted the next day, with liftoff set for 23:02 CEST, 25 April 2016.

  • NASA Commander Tweets To Take Questions In Space

    NASA Commander Tweets To Take Questions In Space

    NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, commander of the next space shuttle mission to the
    International Space Station, is sharing the final weeks of his training on Twitter.
    Polansky invites followers to submit questions that he will answer from orbit during
    his mission, STS-127, targeted to launch in June. Questions should be submitted in
    the form of a video not longer than 30 seconds, posted to YouTube, and a link to the
    video sent to Polansky’s twitter account at:http://twitter.com/Astro_127.

    Questions will be selected each week to be among those Polansky will answer from space,
    live on NASA Television. The questions that have been selected will be announced on
    his Twitter feed each week.