Designed for multimedia broadcast, Tracker 2000 is a monthly magazine covering contemporary ESA topics. This video contains parts 1 and 2 of the March 2000 edition, and is arranged in A/B-roll format. Contents are as follows:
PART 1
XMM-Newton: The XMM satellite, launched in 1999, is the world's most sensitive X-ray observatory, and will provide astronomers with detailed knowledge of violent events in the universe which produce X-rays, including the action of black holes and explosions called gamma-ray bursts. Included are XMM-Newton's first images; 3-D graphics of XMM Newton in space; 3-D graphics of XMM's optical telescope; graphics of space; var s' XMM/Ariane 504 launch; interview with Fred Jansen, project scientist XMM Newton (English and Dutch versions); gvs' Science Operations Centre control room, VILSPA, Villafranca, Spain; interview with Roger Bonnet, ESA's Director of Science (English/French versions).
SOHO's Century: SOHO, launched in 1995, transmits vivid pictures of the Sun's atmosphere, by visi

PART 1
XMM-Newton: The XMM satellite, launched in 1999, is the world's most sensitive X-ray observatory, and will provide astronomers with detailed knowledge of violent events in the universe which produce X-rays, including the action of black holes and explosions called gamma-ray bursts. Included are XMM-Newton's first images; 3-D graphics of XMM Newton in space; 3-D graphics of XMM's optical telescope; graphics of space; var s' XMM/Ariane 504 launch; interview with Fred Jansen, project scientist XMM Newton (English and Dutch versions); gvs' Science Operations Centre control room, VILSPA, Villafranca, Spain; interview with Roger Bonnet, ESA's Director of Science (English/French versions).
SOHO's Century: SOHO, launched in 1995, transmits vivid pictures of the Sun's atmosphere, by visible and ultraviolet light, and registers atomic particles en route from the Sun to Earth. Waves seen by SOHO in the Sun's visible surface reveal what is going on beneath the surface and in the deep interior. This news item pro