#OTD: ESA lost all contact with Eureca on board Shuttle Atlantis! Paolo Ferri at ESOC: “Our workstation alarms began ringing, a lot of error messages were reported by the ground computers, and Atlantis astronauts were reporting that they also had lost the data from Eureca. We decided to make use of our ESA ground stations – It was our last hope. #ESOC50
1992: Eureca in dramatic Shuttle deployment
We decided to make use of our ESA ground stations. This would give us about 10 minutes of coverage during which we could reconfigure the on-board computer to start the activation procedures from scratch on the redundant units. It was our last hope.