Last July 25 was launched the 70th Ariane 5 rocket. It placed into orbit 2 satellites Alphasat and Insat 3D. This was the fifty-sixth consecutive Ariane 5 launch successful. SCET-M Ground Stations around the world However, this was not a only ‘one more launch’ for the GTD’s team at Kourou Space Center. This flight was the first one to be followed with the brand new telemetry system “SCET-M”. This system receive, decode, process and display the telemetry data sent by the launcher. This system is responsible to telemesure Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega missions. About 1500 parameters are broadcasted by the launcher and received received from different ground stations located around the world at Natal, Ascension, Libreville and Malindi. Parameters like power of propulsion, pressure tanks, trajectory, … are transmitted at 1mb/sec. About 10% of the data are processed in real time and displayed for immediate visual inspection. The rest is stored on Hard Disks and post processed by Arianespace responsible. SCET-M System being Commissioned at GTD’s facilities in Barcelona SCET-M, has been developed by an industrial consortium between GTD and DASSAULT.
