#ESOC50 Long Night of the Stars
On 8 September 2017, ESA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
Fifty years ago, the European Space Operations Centre was inaugurated in Darmstadt and since then, the centre has become known worldwide as Europe’s ‘Gateway to Space’. ESOC was inaugurated just a decade after the Soviet Union placed Sputnik 1 into orbit in 1957, its plaintive radio beeps signalling that the era of space exploration had begun. In five decades, ESOC mission control has flown 77 spacecraft, ranging from telecom, weather, Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites to spacecraft studying the Sun and peering deep into our Universe.
Long Night of the Stars was only the fourth open-door event in ESOC's history, but was by far the largest with some 5000 people welcomed on site.
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Long_Night_of_the_Stars_ESA_ope...
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Happy_birthday_ESOC
Fifty years ago, the European Space Operations Centre was inaugurated in Darmstadt and since then, the centre has become known worldwide as Europe’s ‘Gateway to Space’. ESOC was inaugurated just a decade after the Soviet Union placed Sputnik 1 into orbit in 1957, its plaintive radio beeps signalling that the era of space exploration had begun. In five decades, ESOC mission control has flown 77 spacecraft, ranging from telecom, weather, Earth observation and climate monitoring satellites to spacecraft studying the Sun and peering deep into our Universe.
Long Night of the Stars was only the fourth open-door event in ESOC's history, but was by far the largest with some 5000 people welcomed on site.
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Long_Night_of_the_Stars_ESA_ope...
www.esa.int/About_Us/ESOC/Happy_birthday_ESOC
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