Comments on: Two ESA Satellites Launch Successfully

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:41:37 +0000

When will they send up the last three Village People satellites?

By: Nicholos Wethington

Nicholos Wethington — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:03:31 +0000

@Silenus

The dimensions I got from the mission site were 0.6 × 0.6 × 0.8 meters. I guess I was thinking a rather big suitcase. It seems everyone at the airport these days has those HUGE rolling ones! And yeah, it's cute little satellite.

By: Silenus

Silenus — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:37:49 +0000

Actually, it's more a washing machine sized PROBA2, but consumes on average the power of one light bulb (around 60W)

Still, it's cute

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:31:29 +0000

Mmmm – should see some interesting results from the SMOS mission.

Suitcase size Proba2 – aww – isn't it CUTE!