After the launch of the Copernicus EU Sentinel-5P satellite on Friday 13 October, the ground team at Plesetsk Cosmodrome has been packing up and preparing to go back home, while the team at ESA’s European Spacecraft operations Centre (ESOC) was busy with monitoring the satellite’s early orbit phase,
Tweet Following the excitement of launching Sentinel-5P on Friday 13 October, the weekend was much quieter here in Plesetsk. Time has been mainly spent retrieving equipment from the MIK cleanroom and from the ‘under table room’, packing up and preparing to go home. For the team at ESA’s European Spa…