IMAGE 1400_99\421.Lbm,The European Operations Centre (ESOC), ESA's main mission control centre at Darmstadt in Germany.
IMAGE 1400_99\422.Lbm,Controllers working at the communications consoles at ESOC during a mission.
IMAGE 1400_99\423.Lbm,Cutaway revealing some of test facilities at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) at Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
IMAGE 1400_99\428.Lbm,The headquarters building of the European Space Research Institute (ESRIN) at Frascati in Italy. It includes Earthnet, ESA's main data-processing facility.
IMAGE 1400_99\424.Lbm,Europe's Earth resources satellite ERS 1 being tested in the large space simulator at ESTEC.
IMAGE 1400_99\420.Lbm,The tracking station at Villafranca in Spain, part of ESA's extensive satellite tracking system.
IMAGE 1400_99\427.Lbm,ESA's ground station at Fucino in Italy, one of the major sites that receive data from Europe's satellites.
IMAGE 1400_99\419.Lbm,Aerial view of the launch pad area of the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana, launch site for ESA's Ariane launch vehicles.
IMAGE 100_199\135.Lbm,Two European astronauts, Wubbo Ockels (left) and Ulf Merbold, train for Spacelab flights in a mock-up of the space laboratory.
IMAGE 1400_99\426.Lbm,Wubbo Ockels tests a modified space sleeping bag, developed by ESTEC. He took it with him when he made his space debut in Spacelab D1 (STS-61A) in October 1985.
IMAGE 100_199\110.Lbm,Early next century Freedom should be operational. This view focuses on the main modules, showing the two US modules (one cutaway) and the Columbus (European) and NASDA (Japanese) ones.
IMAGE 1400_99\429.Lbm,Earthnet processed Landsat data to get this simulated natural colour image of Europe.
IMAGE 1400_99\430.Lbm,Earthnet is also one of the main facilities for processing and distributing Earth resources images from ERS 1. This frame shows the Arctic island of Spitzbergen.
