Belgian User Support and Operations Centre | 2021-2022
B.USOC is leading a consortium of 52 teams all over Europe in charge of operating, developing and improving this network of services to provide timely and reliable space weather information to the different user communities.
ESA agreed to relocate the payload instead of removing and trashing it. In a very short time, the ground teams overcame all the technical hurdles and transformed the nadir-viewing payload into a limb-viewing one, producing now new science.
The Fluid Science Laboratory onboard the ISS saw a lot of sample exchanges and complete Experiment Containers coming and going. Laser issues that even some well-placed hammer blows could not solve, resulted in a 5-month science hiatus.