Designed for multimedia broadcast, Tracker 2000 is a monthly magazine covering contemporary ESA topics. This issue, in two parts, is arranged in A/B-roll format and contains:
MARS - AN ESA UPDATE: Whilst NASA is investigating the reasons for the failure of its recent missions to Mars, these events did not remain without an impact for ESA who are pushing ahead with Mars Express, a Mars orbiter carrying the Beagle 2 lander scheduled for launch in 2003. This update includes Mars footage; 3-D graphics of Mars Express; 3-D graphics of the Beagle 2 lander on planet surface; interview with ESA's Mars Express Project Manager, Rudi Schmidt.
THE SMARTEST MISSION TO THE MOON: In 2001 ESA will send a small spacecraft to the moon called SMART-1, which features many new technologies, most notably a revolutionary ion propulsion system. This news item contains new 3-D graphics of the SMART-1 satellite, and SMART-1 in lunar orbit an surveying; shots of the Ion Propulsion System; interview with Giorgio Saccoccia, SMART-1 pro

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