ESA will film deadly reentry from inside of a space craft

[Sky_walker]

As ESA’s remaining supply ferry to the International Space Station burns up in the atmosphere, its final moments as its hull disintegrates will be recorded from the inside by a unique infrared camera.

An ESA-led team designed and developed the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Break-Up Camera in just nine months in order to make it on board in time.

Working at breakneck pace, the team designed, built and tested both the camera and the Reentry SatCom capsule to work like an aircraft-style ’black box’ to store images, then transmit them to Earth after the vessel’s break-up via an Iridium satellite link.

ESA’s BUC camera will join Japan’s i-Ball optical camera and NASA’s Re-entry Break-up Recorder to give as full a picture as possible of the conditions inside the vehicle as it breaks up.

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Engineering/ATV_s_fiery_break-up_to_be_seen_from_inside

Sounds great - for those disappointed that it will be an IR camera instead of regular one: It's hot plasma, so there won't be much color involved, it'll glow white. Image that ESA attached is misleading - there are not red flames going around. Here's more appropriate image:

(Mir Reentry, 23 March 2001)

Also an IR camera got an important advantage over one working in a visual spectrum: It can see much better through smoke.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Sky_walker

[piggysanTH]

Ooooo. That look interesting!(And cool:cool:!) But when ATV-5 will launch?

[Sky_walker]

26th July 2014

[piggysanTH]

26th July 2014

Really! Just 9 day to go! I must find some live-steaming launch Website to what it launch!

[Sky_walker]

They're already assembling Ariane 5

[Streetwind]

Man, ESA is on a roll this summer! Rosetta on the last few days of its 10 year trip, Venus Explorer doing never before attempted atmosphere dives (and succeeding) just because they have nothing better to do with it, the IXV spaceplane demonstrator getting declared ready for its first test (later this year), successful testing of a quadcoper dropship for Mars rover deployment, and now this likely spectacular video project.

... and that's just for July, which is barely half over

Always good to see that all those tax Euros are getting results.

[piggysanTH]

Excuse me. But what launch site that Ariane 5 use?(Is there use French Guiana?)

Edited July 17, 2014 by piggysanTH
Wrong Spell :P

[Streetwind]

Yes, all Ariane rockets launch from Guiana Space Centre.

[piggysanTH]

Is it own by one country/space agency? Or every can use it?(Like Sea Launch Platform?)

BTW I heard that it had launch Soyuz Rocket for couple time. Is it man flight?

[Sky_walker]

Excuse me. But what launch site that Ariane 5 use?(Is there use French Guiana?)

Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana (5° 13’ 56’’ North, 52° 46’ 32’’ West, or in google format: 5.232222, -52.775556)

(edit: Wops, streetwind was quicker)

Is it own by one country/space agency? Or every can use it?(Like Sea Launch Platform?)

BTW I heard that it had launch Soyuz Rocket for couple time. Is it man flight?

It's owned by ESA and a French government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble_de_Lancement_Soyouz

Edited July 17, 2014 by Sky_walker

[Streetwind]

You could probably rent a launchpad at Giuana Space Centre if you had a rocket and no place to put it. It's actually a fairly attractive proposition, since it sits smack-dab on the equator, like our launchpad in KSP. All other spaceports are further north. Baikonur significantly so.

[Sky_walker]

Baikonur? Check out Plesetsk. Hahaha

[sgt_flyer]

Is it own by one country/space agency? Or every can use it?(Like Sea Launch Platform?)

BTW I heard that it had launch Soyuz Rocket for couple time. Is it man flight?

Kourou space center in guyana has a Soyuz launch pad (where the rockets are rolled vertically on the pad from a vertical VAB - instead of the russian style horizontal VAB) - however, they only do unmmaned launches. (using Kourou, allows the soyuz rocket to have a bigger payload for GTO launches with the same rocket - simply because it benefits more from earth's rotation) - and it gives Kourou space center a medium payload capable rocket - Vega for light payloads, Soyuz for medium payloads, and Ariane V for heavy payloads)

manned launches to orbit are currently only from baikonour or Jiuquan. (though that may change once russians finish their new cosmodromes)

[Kryten]

All other spaceports are further north. Baikonur significantly so.

The Brazilian Alcantara base is even closer to the equator than Kourou is; not that that helps the Brazilians much, given they're 0-for-3 in getting something to orbit at all.

[Agamemnon]

26th July 2014

actually, the launch is 25th July, 01:41:04 utc

edit:

forget that... seems to be delayed by several days due to an issue with the second stage

Edited July 17, 2014 by Agamemnon

[Agamemnon]

forget that... seems to be delayed by several days due to an issue with the second stage

net 29th july