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Le satellite de télécommunications Artemis de l’ESA arrive enfin à destination – chronique d’un sauvetage remarquable
 
19 février 2003

The Artemis recovery team


Credits: ESA
 
  Une longue route jusqu’à l’orbite géostationnaire
 


Credits: ESA
 
  Une première mondiale, bien avant d’arriver à destination
 
SPOT 4 image of Lanzarote in the Canaries
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Lanzarote, Canaries: First image transmitted by means of an optic laser between the Pastel instrument on SPOT 4 and the SILEX system on the geostationary satellite Artemis. Artemis relays the images in real time to the image treatment centre Spot Image in Toulouse. Courtesy CNES/Distribution SPOT Image

Credits: CNES 2001/Distribution Spot Image
 
  Etapes finales
 
Artemis and SPOT 4 communicating via the SILEX system
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Carrying three payloads plus a number of experiments, Artemis (Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite) has been designed to test and operate new telecommunications techniques.
The L-band mobile payload allows two-way voice and data communications, via satellite, between fixed Earth stations and land mobiles - trucks, trains or cars - anywhere in Europe and North Africa.
Artemis carries two payloads for communications directly between satellites, which receive data from low-Earth-orbiting satellites and transmit them directly to Europe:
-a laser-optical relay terminal called SILEX
-a double S/Ka-band terminal called SKDR.
ARTEMIS was launched 12 July 2001 by Ariane 5. It was initially placed in the wrong orbit and recovery operations have been underway since then to bring it to its final position.

Credits: ESA-J.Huart
 
 
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