Sentence examples for spacecraft manager from inspiring English sources

The message they conveyed is dryly summarized by Francis C. Vandenbussche, the SOHO spacecraft manager from ESA who heads the recovery team: "It's a little bit chilly".

"Rosetta has been comparable to the moon landing," said Andrea Accomazzo, ESA's spacecraft operations manager.

As Spacecraft Team Manager at Grumman during the development of the Apollo Lunar Module, he directed a team integral to the success of the Apollo 11 LM-5 Eagle, the first spacecraft to land humans on the moon.

Andrea Accomazzo, ESA's spacecraft operations manager, said: "When we put it in the Martian environment, the spacecraft didn't behave exactly as expected … It might take quite some time before we are able to locate it".

Fifteen minutes into the flight, Micha Schmidt, a spacecraft operations manager at ESA, said the launch and initial burns that put the Proton rocket on course for Mars were "reading like a picture book performance".

And below, you can hear spacecraft operations manager Sylvain Lodiot announce the formal loss of signal.

Among applause in the control room, Andrea Accomazzo, Esa's Rosetta spacecraft operations manager, said: "Now we've got it back... it's up to us to drive it to the comet".

"The fantastic news after hibernation is that the solar arrays haven't degraded, so we are in an optimal state for power," explained Sylvain Lodiot, Rosetta's deputy spacecraft operations manager.

Mars Express project scientist Olivier Witasse and spacecraft operations manager Michel Denis will participate in a live Google+ Hangout with the Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla, starting at 10 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT).

"Arriving at the comet is really only just the beginning of an even bigger adventure, with greater challenges still to come as we learn how to operate in this unchartered environment, start to orbit and, eventually, land," said Sylvain Lodiot, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft operations manager in a statement.

"It looks like something was wrong with the groundbased navigation," said John McNamee, project manager for spacecraft development at JPL. Universally regarded as the best in the world, JPL's navigation team takes tracking data beamed back from a spacecraft and determines its position so that short burns of the onboard rocket engine can bring it on target.