After the succesfful launch of Mars Express, this Exchange programme provides an updated overview of the Mars Express mission, including launch highlights and an overview of operations until arrival of ESA's first planetary mission at the Red Planet, on Christmas 2003.
This exchange comprises of a 5-minute A-roll with split audio (english commentary/international sound) and is complimented by a 8-minute B-roll with clean international sound.

A-Roll
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On 2nd June 2003, ESA's first planetary mission, Mars Express, waited atop a Starsem Soyuz launcher to begin its six month journey to the red planet.
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While the anxious controllers at the operations centre looked on, a perfect lift-off was celebrated by the visitors and by ESA's Director of Science, David Southwood.
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Sound bite: David Southwood.
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For the engineers and the scientists, this was a special moment in what had been a three-year construction; the last ten weeks at Baikonur, integrating the spacecraft, the Beagle-2 lander, the launcher and the Fregat upper stage that would inject Mars Express into deep space.
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With the spacecraft safely enclosed in its protective fairing, the whole launcher assembly was rolled out by rail to the launch pad, on 29 May.
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The unseen last stages of the launch were tracked by Starsem's real time animation - finally showing separation of the spacecraft.
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