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Venus Express: One Year in Orbit, Symposium at the 2007 EGU General Assembly
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post Jan 3 2007, 07:37 PM
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Forwarding an email that was sent out today by Dmitri Titov, Venus Express PI. Cross reference with this UMSF thread.

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Dear Colleagues,

the General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union (EGU) will be held on April 15-20, 2007 in Vienna, Austria. The Symposium PS 2.1 "Venus Express: one year in orbit", included in the science Programme, will be focused on presentation and discussion of the results obtained during the first year of the orbital mission. Please find the description of the Symposium at the end of the e-mail and visit the EGU Web site: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/ for more details about the Assembly.

We would like to encourage you to take part in the Symposium and to submit contributed abstracts. Please note that the deadline for abstracts submission is January 15, 2007.

Best regards

Dima Titov and Hakan Svedhem,
The Conveners
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On April 11, 2006 Venus Express-the first European satellite at Venus- was inserted in orbit around the planet and began collecting data. The results of the first year of observations will be presented at the Symposium. The Programme will consist of solicited talks focused on the Venus Express observations and contributed presentations of the preliminary data analysis. The contributions related to the physics of Venus atmosphere, its plasma environment and the surface and based on the analysis of the data from Venus Express and earlier missions, theoretical studies and numerical modelling are highly welcome. Perspectives of the future Venus exploration will be discussed.

Convener : D. Titov (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) Co-convener : H. Svedhem (ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
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djellison
post Jan 4 2007, 08:59 PM
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Yes - but there IS someone to observe the event - the scientists on the instrument teams ARE seing this stuff going on - they're just not telling anyone about it.

The apple falls, it's measured by scientists, written in their notebooks -but they don't think to publicise the fact.

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post Jan 4 2007, 10:33 PM
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I think that in the US the space community long ago woke up to the idea that with no bucks, there will be no Buck Rogers - whether manned or unmanned - and that to get the bucks the taxpayers have to see some return (questions of pork etc notwithstanding). In the European context, things are still very cosy, and there's less need to strive for survival - when it's Buggin's turn for funding, out it rolls (oh, and if you're a heretic with a Beagle-ish project you'll never be welcome, and whatever slight funding you're pleased to have will always be just sufficient to cause a convenient failure!).

Don't start me on ELDO. That'd be a rant, and us UMSFers don't do rants, oh no!


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post Jan 5 2007, 12:07 AM
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post Jan 5 2007, 12:20 AM
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QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 4 2007, 07:07 PM) *
I remember the great missions of the 1970s plus the Voyager encounters in the 1980s (especially at Saturn) putting some impressive articles in my small-town hometown newspaper with dazzling images accompanying. The cost of those to NASA must have been tiny. ESA can't muster the equivalent.

The problem isn't that ESA can't muster the equivalent -- it's that they somehow don't seem to see a need to do so.

I think there is more to it than a lack of money -- the incremental increase in funding which would make outreach possible is a tiny percentage of what ESA spends on its other projects. I think that ESA actually believes that they have only one audience -- the scientists and engineers employed by the projects -- and that there is absolutely no reason to serve any other audience. They almost seem arrogantly aggressive about it.

If I were a member of the EU, I would try and get political action going. Contact my MP or whatever and insist that, if ESA can't serve the needs of the people of the EU and is unable to see themselves as anything but a service to a handful of scientists, then perhaps ESA needs to just go away. Eventually, spending large sums on things for which the people aren't given any pay-off will become a political liability, and if ESA can't manage the process, then someone else needs to step in and do it. Or else Europe will end up withdrawing from space activities... and we all know that's a bad idea.

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post Jan 5 2007, 12:26 AM
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QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 5 2007, 12:20 AM) *
Contact my MP or whatever


I tried that...it killed him

Seriously.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicest...ire/3754905.stm

I contacted him at the beginning of May '04 - he wrote back to me asking for more details, sounded genuinely interested...and promptly died before I could get back to him.

Since then we've had two more MP's - one of whom wasn't around long enough to matter, the second just fobbed me off with copy-and-paste UK space policy nonsense. Basically a dead end. I'm thinking of approaching the science minister.

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post Jan 5 2007, 09:51 PM
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I have said this before and I am going to say this again.

The constant ESA bashing that is a persistant part of this board makes me really, really angry. It is utterly unneccessary, completely pointless, and based on an arrogant assumption that what NASA does everybody else should do. Just about every discussion about an ESA mission on this board has its obligatory childish whine about about their PR than than becomes several pages of whinging. It is sickening. Even a simple announcement of a forthcomoing meeting for announce results beomes a platform for this rubbish.

ESA is a completely different organisation with a different charter, different buget, and different goals. Accept it. live with it. They are in the business of doing science, not running PR or education. if you want to get results as they come in, get on the science teams. Otherwise wait until the results are published like the rest of us and shut the hell up.

I spent nearly a year off from contributing to this board because of the crap attitude to ESA, and if this keeps on I will again. It reduces the tone of the board to a common political chat room.

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post Jan 6 2007, 12:07 AM
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QUOTE (JonClarke @ Jan 5 2007, 09:51 PM) *
They are in the business of doing science, not running PR or education. if you want to get results as they come in, get on the science teams. Otherwise wait until the results are published like the rest of us and shut the hell up.


That is your opinion and you are entitled to it. As a payer of taxes within Europe, my opinion is somewhat different and I believe ESA is short changing the people that pay for it. Clearly I am not alone in having that opinion either. We are each entitled to our opinions.

However you are not entitled to tell others to 'shut the hell up' because their opinion differs to your own.

Doug
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- AlexBlackwell   Venus Express: One Year in Orbit   Jan 3 2007, 07:37 PM
- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 4 2007, 06:17 PM
|- - Littlebit   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 4 2007, 11:17 AM) T...   Jan 4 2007, 07:13 PM
- - Phil Stooke   "VE is a failed mission." On the contra...   Jan 4 2007, 07:40 PM
|- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Jan 4 2007, 09:40 AM...   Jan 4 2007, 08:16 PM
|- - helvick   True it is only a PR failure and apart from the PF...   Jan 4 2007, 08:31 PM
- - djellison   A PR failure - but not a failed mission by any str...   Jan 4 2007, 08:09 PM
|- - Littlebit   QUOTE (djellison @ Jan 4 2007, 01:09 PM) ...   Jan 4 2007, 08:55 PM
- - djellison   Oh - we all know that ESA is just utterly utterly ...   Jan 4 2007, 08:47 PM
- - djellison   Yes - but there IS someone to observe the event - ...   Jan 4 2007, 08:59 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   I think that in the US the space community long ag...   Jan 4 2007, 10:33 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 5 2007, 12:07 AM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 4 2007, 07:07 PM) I...   Jan 5 2007, 12:20 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 5 2007, 12:20 AM) C...   Jan 5 2007, 12:26 AM
||- - JonClarke   I have said this before and I am going to say this...   Jan 5 2007, 09:51 PM
||- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (JonClarke @ Jan 5 2007, 09:51 PM) ...   Jan 5 2007, 10:07 PM
||- - AlexBlackwell   QUOTE (JonClarke @ Jan 5 2007, 11:51 AM) ...   Jan 5 2007, 10:25 PM
||- - djellison   QUOTE (JonClarke @ Jan 5 2007, 09:51 PM) ...   Jan 6 2007, 12:07 AM
||- - JRehling   QUOTE (JonClarke @ Jan 5 2007, 01:51 PM) ...   Jan 7 2007, 07:32 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 5 2007, 12:20 AM) T...   Jan 5 2007, 12:32 AM
- - JTN   Since this old chestnut has come up again: I thoug...   Jan 4 2007, 10:30 PM
- - remcook   A question: who does all the outreach for the MERs...   Jan 5 2007, 04:42 PM
- - nprev   Doug & admins, please move this post as approp...   Jan 8 2007, 03:29 AM
- - ollopa   This discussion is more noise than information. C...   Jan 9 2007, 02:25 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (ollopa @ Jan 9 2007, 02:25 PM) Thi...   Jan 9 2007, 02:52 PM
||- - 4th rock from the sun   Let me dream a little, but part of the solution to...   Jan 9 2007, 03:36 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (ollopa @ Jan 9 2007, 02:25 PM) Thi...   Jan 9 2007, 03:34 PM
||- - ollopa   [quote name='djellison' date='Jan 9 20...   Jan 9 2007, 04:23 PM
|- - JRehling   [...]   Jan 9 2007, 05:38 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (JRehling @ Jan 9 2007, 05:38 PM) B...   Jan 9 2007, 05:49 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (ustrax @ Jan 9 2007, 05:49 PM) The...   Jan 9 2007, 07:21 PM
- - djellison   Outside the remit of outreach - but still a job it...   Jan 9 2007, 05:05 PM
- - slinted   I know there's no way of knowing how this woul...   Jan 14 2007, 07:59 AM
- - J.J.   I agree with others who say that the differences b...   Jan 14 2007, 07:58 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (J.J. @ Jan 14 2007, 07:58 PM) To b...   Jan 14 2007, 09:05 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (J.J. @ Jan 14 2007, 07:58 PM) To b...   Jan 15 2007, 09:35 PM
- - edstrick   "have sites that look like they were designed...   Jan 15 2007, 11:29 AM
- - remcook   QUOTE Well, with Giotto and MEx there have been is...   Jan 15 2007, 03:01 PM
- - dvandorn   I'm unsure whether this observation should go ...   Jan 15 2007, 04:07 PM
|- - tedstryk   QUOTE (dvandorn @ Jan 15 2007, 04:07 PM) ...   Jan 15 2007, 04:31 PM
- - AlexBlackwell   The abstracts for this session are now online. Ch...   Jan 30 2007, 12:57 AM
- - ustrax   Does anyone need a job?... A lot more here.   Feb 14 2007, 12:34 PM


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