Kiruna Flight March 2000

Kiruna Flight April 2000

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• 3 March 2000:
First  CNES Kiruna flight for Archeops (3 March 2000)




This first technical flight only embarked the Inmarsat telemetry on a CNES gondola to validate this new telemetry.
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 17:13:19 +0100
From: Benoit Alain <benoit@labs.polycnrs-gre.fr>
Flight in progress at Kiruna:
Notre telemetrie  satellite est en train de voler a Kiruna:
decollage a 14h 35  plafond a 30000m (8hPa) depuis 16h.
La communication satellite marche bien
Bon courage a Laurent Guglielmi en charge du vol a Kiruna
and thanks for the photos (photos of aurorae by courtesy of Eric Schmitt):
Launch1      Launch2     Launch3      Aurora1       Aurora2 
 

 

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• April 2000:
Second  CNES Kiruna flight for Archeops (4 April 2000) ---------------------------------------
The Archeops test gondola is ready to flight in Kiruna
You can see on the picture, the Inmarsat antenna and the entrance of the stellar sensor.
The flight is sheduled for tomorrow tuesday (April 4 2000),
early morning, launch at 2:15
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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 07:29:14 +0200
From: alain.benoit
The Archeops test flight has been launched at 2:15 in the morning
at float at 4:25
separation at 6:15
The sensor stellar seems to work properly and we have a lot of data to analyse.
The Inmarsat connection work perfectly during all the flight until the
separation. Alain Benoit

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