This is the third of four programmes on ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft which will fly to the moon following a launch on Ariane 5 on 28 August. Smart-1 is a relatively small spacecraft, developed in record time for a planetary mission, and featuring many examples of miniaturisation that will be tested for future missions. This programmes looks at this aspect of the mission.
This Exchange comprises of a 5 minute A-roll with split audio (English commentary/international sound) and is complimented by a 8-minute B-Roll with clean international sound.

Story 3 - Faster, Cheaper, Smarter
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By June 2003 a hitchhiking team of engineers and scientists will be at Europe's spaceport at Kourou in French Guyana, thumbing a lift for a neat little spacecraft, ESA's SMART-1, as auxiliary passenger on the next Ariane-5 launcher.
It's not very big, just a box with folded solar panels attached. Six strong men could lift it. It weighs less than 370 kilos, compared with Ariane's usual satellites which weigh thousands of kilos. Everything for propulsion, communications, housekeeping and instrumentation fits into this cube just 1 metre across.
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ITV with MARINI, payload engineer
"" We had to embark instruments that were clearly miniaturised. For our experiments we have selected tools with innovative technologies onboard but at the same time allowing to perform science and measurements with instruments very small in mass but very efficient and very smart.""
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ITV with Eike KIRCHER, ESA Technology Research Programme
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