Venus Express launch: ESOC mission control audio loop

At 04:33 CET this morning, Venus Express was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan; mission control operated from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Darmstadt, Germany. Today's ESApod includes audio clips from the communications loop used by flight controllers and includes the Flight Operations Director's pre-launch GO-NOGO "Roll-Call" (held at 03:38 CET) as well as an interview with Ground Segment Manager Manfred Warhaut from the Main Control Room.

ESApod audio programme