MAVEN orbit insertion – watching live with students
It was already a night in Europe, but we all met in Department of Avionics just for one reason. To watch live event of the MAVEN orbit insertion.
Time was ticking, it was 02:30 a.m. and we just arrived to faculty. Students came as well, so the program began. Connected to live stream provided by NASA, we enjoyed an excellent maneuver and successful insertion of MAVEN probe to its orbit around Mars.
At the beginning of the program I presented some information about the mission of MAVEN.
I would like to say thank you to my colleague and friend Dr Frantisek Adamcik Jr. for taking the photos.
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Dr. Jozef Kozár is a scientist and writer, studying planets, Solar System, and robotic space exploration missions. He is the author of seven books, author of several hundred articles published in various scientific and popular magazines, a former public speaker, and a documentary movies/TV guest.
Jozef's Mars research and the “GNSS for Mars” project became well known especially in 2015 when it attracted many local and worldwide media. Jozef earned his Ph.D. in the field of aerospace from the Technical University of Kosice in 2016. During his following career, he left his home country and completed a professional university course in planetary science – the science of the Solar System, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California in 2019. View all posts by Joe
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