Tuesday 16 July, the first daily meeting of the Sentinel-2C launch campaign took place in CSG. The meeting was held in the Payload Preparation Facility S1A and gathered the ESA launch campaign early team (3 of us) and 17 participants from Arianespace and CNES to give us a warm welcome! Once the dry-run of the daily meeting was completed, the urgent topics were discussed and the plan for the upcoming days reviewed and agreed. Our IT team started right away unpacking and setting up their equipment. First thing first, the coffee machine was unanimously given the highest priority!

Shaf, Patricia and Ricardo, like the 3 musketeers, enjoying their first cup of coffee of the launch campaign… and certainly not the last!

By the end of the day, the wifi was operational.

Tomorrow, we expect Airbus early team to join the daily meeting and more of our colleagues from ESA and industry in the next days. We will continue together the set-up our new working environment and run the facility acceptance checks to make sure that all our needs are fulfilled before the arrival of the satellite.

Safety training.