(C32) L-5 Dress rehearsal

The dress rehearsal of the count down for the VA-224 mission took place today (02/07). This activity  is a rehearsal of the Launch Day chronology  with all the parties involved :

• the MSG-4 team monitoring the spacecraft (LBC-2)
• the Ariane 5  launcher (CDL-3),
• the CSG Control Centre teams and support (Jupiter 2), 
• the local meteo station, 
• the tracking stations (Malindi, Perth, Maspalomas, Kourou)
• the ESA Operation Centre (ESOC, Darmstadt Germany),
• the final client (EUMETSAT, Darmstadt Germany),  

This activity enables the participant to familiarise with the procedures as well as to test all the telecom links used at L-0. There are in fact no significant changes with the MSG-3 dress rehearsal which was already described in the previous blog.

Overall view of the LBC-2 during MSG-4 dress rehearsal on 02/07/2015

 Overall view of the Jupiter-2 control room

Starting at 05:00 am (local time)  this morning ...a long day again for all the MSG-4 teams!