Re: [ATM] Corot lifts off

[Dominic-Luc Webb <dlwebb@canit.se>]

Well Richard,

It looks like European science is slowly catching up... Yippie!
Up here in Sweden, there was decent amount of celebration for
the first Swedish astronaut, Christer Fuglesang.

Regarding ATMing, with each of the missions from the States, especially
the "big" ones, there has been a lot more public following, and the
public has had a much greater fascination that requires a lot more
interaction. If you think back to the JPL webpages, they often provide
rather much information on their websites. Albeit, they keep things
simple, perhaps trying to keep things palatable to non-scientists/engineers.
I was impressed years ago to be able to get so much information from
NASA and JPL when I asked. For instance, I asked a few details about how
Hubble works and how people get images, and they mailed me some huge
technical manuals. Something similar happened with Galileo. By comparison,
the European Space Agency (ESA), has been much more secretive, and their
webpages usually did not have much info about the various projects. In
examining the Corot website, things have changed drammatically. In fact,
the French are even starting to provide information in English. At this
website, there is actually some information about the design of Corot
telescope (in English), which is very different from Hubble. It seems to
be smaller than the systems many of us have built....

http://smsc.cnes.fr/COROT/GP_satellite.htm


Dominic-Luc Webb

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