ADM-AEOLUS (ESA SATELLITE)

This time-lapse video shows ESA’s #Aeolus satellite being prepared for liftoff. It includes shots from the cleanroom in France, its arrival by ship in French Guiana, preparations at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, roll out to the launch pad and, finally, liftoff on a Vega rocket on 22 August 2018. Aeolus carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit. The first of its kind, the Aladin instrument includes revolutionary laser technology to generate pulses of ultraviolet light that are beamed down into the atmosphere to profile the world’s winds – a completely new approach to measuring the wind from space. Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Check out our full video catalog: http://bit.ly/SpaceInVideos Follow ESA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/ESAonTwitter On Facebook: http://bit.ly/ESAonFacebook On Instagram: http://bit.ly/ESAonInstagram On Flickr: http://bit.ly/ESAonFlickr ESA is Europe's gateway to space. Our mission is to shape the development of Europe's space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world. Check out http://www.esa.int/ESA to get up to speed on everything space related. Copyright information about our videos is available here: http://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions Credits of this video: Directed and realised by Stephane Corvaja, ESA; Realised and edited by Manuel Pédoussaut, Zetapress; Music by Hubrid - GALACTIC

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Watch Arianespace launch ESA's newest weather satellite. ADM-Aeolus is going to be the first satellite to use lidar for measuring winds. Liftoff is scheduled for 21:20:09 UTC exactly. The target orbit is a 230km circular, Sun Synchronous orbit. My coverage of this launch starts about 30 minutes prior to liftoff. Follow me on twitter for more updates for next launch hosts and paper model builds https://twitter.com/HollestelleArco

Learn how Earth’s wind is generated and why we need to measure it. Discover how ESA’s Aeolus satellite will use laser technology to measure these invisible streams of air to help understand our climate and to improve our weather forecasts. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

Lofted into orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 22 August 2018, ESA’s Aeolus satellite will measure winds around the globe and play a key role in our quest to better understand the workings of our atmosphere. Importantly, this novel mission will also improve weather forecasting. The Aeolus carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit. The first of its kind, Aladin includes revolutionary laser technology to generate pulses of ultraviolet light that are beamed down into the atmosphere to profile the world’s winds – a completely new approach to measuring the wind from space. Prior to liftoff, the satellite had been at the spaceport for around six weeks being tested, fuelled, encased in the Vega rocket fairing, rolled out to the launch pad and hoisted into the launch tower. Vega lifted off at 21:20 GMT (23:20 CEST, 18:20 local time) on 22 August. Some 55 minutes later, the upper stage delivered Aeolus into orbit and contact was established through the Troll ground station in Antarctica at 00:30 CEST on 23 August. The satellite is being controlled from ESA’s European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Controllers will spend the next few months carefully checking and calibrating the mission as part of its commissioning phase. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

Watch the launch of a British-built satellite that could improve weather forecasting around the world. The Aeolus spacecraft is equipped with a powerful laser, and will be the first that's able to directly measure wind speeds on Earth from space. It's heading into space on a three-year mission. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/

Twenty four hours after the initial launch was cancelled because of the breeze, Europe's wind measuring satellite has finally been launched. On board the solid fuel Vega rocket is Aeolus,a British-built satellite which hopes to change the way the world's weather is forecast. Aeolus is fitted with an Atmospheric Laser Doppler Instrument, or Aladin for short. Once in orbit it will shine laser beams through Earth's atmosphere. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/

The European Space Agency’s Aeolus satellite, that will study Earth’s winds on a global scale, launched on Aug. 22, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. Credit: Arianespace

ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite lifted off on a Vega rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:20 GMT (23:20 CEST, 18:20 local time) on 22 August 2018. Aeolus carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit. The first of its kind, the Aladin instrument includes revolutionary laser technology to generate pulses of ultraviolet light that are beamed down into the atmosphere to profile the world’s winds – a completely new approach to measuring the wind from space. By profiling the lowermost 30 km of the atmosphere, Aeolus will give scientists global information on the speed of the wind in near-real time. This will improve our understanding of how wind, pressure, temperature and humidity are interlinked. This new mission will also provide insight into how the wind influences the exchange of heat and moisture between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere. These aspects are important for understanding climate change. As well as advancing science and improving weather forecasts, data from Aeolus will be used in air-quality models to improve forecasts of dust and other airborne particles that affect public health. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

The Aeolus spacecraft is equipped with a powerful laser - the first that's able to directly measure wind speeds on Earth from space, which Meteorologists hope will have a big impact on the quality of medium-range weather forecasts. • Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2lOHmNj • Get breaking news and more stories at http://www.itv.com/news Follow ITV News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/ Follow ITV News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/itvnews Follow ITV News on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itvnews/

Thanks to the wind, heat is distributed around the planet. Equatorial regions receive more heat from the Sun than other parts of the world. This leads to differences in air temperature, density and pressure, which in turn, cause the air to move – creating wind. This movement of air constitutes the general circulation of the atmosphere, transporting heat away from equatorial regions towards the poles, and returning cooler air to the tropics. The wind clearly plays an important role in weather forecasts, which in turn are not only important for planning our daily affairs, but vital for numerous commercial activities such as farming, fishing, transport, and for taking appropriate measures when extreme weather is on the horizon. Although weather forecasts have advanced considerably in recent years, there is a need for global wind measurements to improve them even further. ESA’s Aeolus mission will fill this gap by providing global wind-profiles in near-real time. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts will process these data and the data in their numerical weather prediction models, which will lead to better forecasting. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

ESA’s Martin Kaspers joins us at Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, where Aeolus is being readied for liftoff on 21 August 2018. Martin discusses some of the challenges they have encountered developing this state-of-the-art satellite mission. Aeolus uses powerful laser technology that probes the lowermost 30 km of our atmosphere to yield vertical profiles of the wind and information on aerosols and clouds – a completely new approach to measuring the wind from space. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

At the Airbus Defence and Space facility in Toulouse, France, ESA’s Aeolus wind satellite has been prepared for its launch on top of a Vega rocket from Kourou in French Guiana. Liftoff is currently scheduled for August. The development of this latest Earth Explorer started 16 years ago and has now finished. From orbit Aeolus will measure wind profiles on a global scale using a pioneering laser technology. These measurements will greatly benefit existing meteorological models and fill a gap in the observations of wind. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

Discover more about our planet with the Earth from Space video programme. In this special edition, ESA’s Aeolus Project Manager, Anders Elfving, joins us in the cleanroom at Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France, to talk about the challenges in developing the mission’s pioneering laser technology. ★ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/ESAsubscribe Learn more about Aeolus: http://bit.ly/AeolusESA

ESA’s Earth Explorer Aeolus satellite will be launched later this year to measure the world’s winds from space. The satellite carries one of the most sophisticated instruments ever to be put into orbit: Aladin, which includes two powerful lasers, a large telescope and very sensitive receivers. The laser generates ultraviolet light that is beamed down into the atmosphere to profile the world’s winds – a completely new approach to measuring the wind from space. These vertical slices through the atmosphere, along with information it gathers on aerosols and clouds, will improve our understanding of atmospheric dynamics and contribute to climate research. As well as advancing science, Aeolus will play an important role in improving weather forecasts. The mission will also complement information about the atmosphere being provided by the Copernicus Sentinel missions. Visit our website to learn more: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Aeolus

ESA will soon launch a new Earth Explorer satellite called Aeolus. Using cutting-edge laser technology, Aeolus will deliver timely and accurate profiles of the world’s winds along with information on aerosols and clouds. This will not only advance our understanding of atmospheric dynamics, but will also provide much-needed information to improve weather forecasts.

Aeolus will measure global wind speeds in horizontal slices up to 30 km above the Earth’s surface and improve the performance of numerical weather forecasts. Aeolus will bring improvement for climate research and modelling.

The Aeolus Satellite, which will be the first to measure wind speeds across the whole planet, is to leave the UK. Report by Jessica Wakefield.

Up at the top of the atmosphere the oxygen we breathe is replaced by highly reactive ‘atomic oxygen’ – created by high-energy ultraviolet splitting apart oxygen molecules into separate atoms. Low-orbiting space missions can be susceptible; the effect was first uncovered as early Space Shuttles returned to Earth with their thermal blankets eaten through. ESA’s Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory was tasked with investigating the resilience of ‘beta cloth’ fibre intended for ESA’s Aeolus wind-mapping mission. Testing took place using the Lab’s atomic oxygen generator, followed by microscopic inspection.