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this is the post-launch news conference

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for aquarius sac d

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launched successfully this morning from

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nasa space launch complex 2 at

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vandenberg air force base in california

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and here to discuss the success of our

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mission today

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is chuck gay the deputy associate

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administrator for the nasa science

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hector timmerman the foreign minister of

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michael freilick the nasa earth science

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and conrado ferraro the konai executive

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and technical director from buenos aires

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and we'll begin first with chuck gay

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chuck thank you george well first

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i think i speak for the entire panel

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when i say we're extremely pleased to be

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here this morning it's been a great day

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on behalf of nasa i would i would first

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like to congratulate the entire team of

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international professionals who have

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worked so hard

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to to accomplish what they have to this

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point for this very very important earth

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the the mission itself is is certainly

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notable for its scientific objectives

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which we've heard about in the

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pre-launch press briefings

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but it's also extremely notable in in

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its demonstration of what can be

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accomplished with international

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partnerships the value of those

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partnerships and how they can be and

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how how pro how proud i am of the entire

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team you know i've i've watched them

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over over the past gosh almost 10 years

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worked together

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overcome obstacles and hardships

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together i've seen them become friends

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and i've seen them become a family

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and and i think these uh you know the

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the bonds that have been established

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during this mission have in some in some

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way made the the earth a little bit

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smaller place for us all so

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back to you george and we'll let the

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other other panel members uh talk about

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the mission all right thank you chuck

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now to hector temeron the foreign

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minister of argentina from buenos aires

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thank you very much thank you very much

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and as i share the happiness

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about a successful launch of an

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argentinian space mission and mission a

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and in cooperation with such an

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important organization as nasa

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but let me tell you that

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how proud we are the argentinians of

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this achievement

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thinking that 10 years ago argentina's

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fabric collapsed and since that time

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we have been coming out with a big

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effort of our people

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the government didn't ever forget the

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importance of science

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important instrument to search the earth

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international cooperation we do this for

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civilian use we do this to advance

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the well-being of our people and the

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people of latin america and everybody

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else and so if part of our cooperation

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with other nations and we hope that in

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the future we will see more of these

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activities together with you at the nasa

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and with other countries in latin

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america and in europe thank you very

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much thank you hector

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now michael freileck the nasa earth

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science division director at nasa

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headquarters michael thank you very much

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this is

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obviously a great day a great day for

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argentina and konai a great day for the

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u.s and nasa and a great day for all of

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our other international collaborators on

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this mission and it's a great day for

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in in the us at least june

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and with the successful launch of sac

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the aquarius today

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i'm reminded that this is like a

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commencement it marks the end of a long

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period of learning of bonding of

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collaborating between

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the teams from all of these nations

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to gain the knowledge

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this great mission and it marks the

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science in ways that it has not that we

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have not been able to before

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aquarius sacd is going to elucidate

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aspects of the water cycle the exchanges

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of water between the oceans and the

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therefore how the ocean contributes to

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moving heat around from low latitudes to

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high latitudes making this earth more

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aquarius sacd is going to be making

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in places that have never had

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measurements made before and it will be

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making them every week for years and

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years this is going to be a great

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mission it has been a superb

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collaboration that has brought our

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and our communities together and i think

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sac the aquarius in the years to come

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thank you george

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and now to colorado veroto the canai

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executive and technical director from

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buenos aires conrado thank

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you a couple of days ago

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i mentioned to some young people that we

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are coming from argentina just to watch

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aquarius sadly going into orbit

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that they could be they will see almost

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nothing since it was expected here

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what matter is the emotion to be there

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and certainly it is the emotion of

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knowing that in just a few minutes

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we may be fully successful

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or it could be that we end feeling that

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years of car work have been wasted

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states canada italy france and brazil do

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share the same feelings

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this is time that the people from

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the italian spaces say the rosa

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instrument the space the french species

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and the impact from brazil the results

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of their work on the environmental tests

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and at home in argentina so many people

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from the national science and technology

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system will be watching the results of

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technology university with other

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instruments and the main

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we are very grateful to all of them

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at this time we are very happy

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we know that aquarius like this in orbit

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alive that it will deliver data it was

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now aquarius d is moving towards a new

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fascinating productive stage

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it will be the responsibility of our

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people at the teoflotabanera center in

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cordoba to manage the mission to ensure

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that the satellite will deliver data in

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science team selected jointly by our

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ministry of science and technology nasa

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and connie to use their imagination to

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find news and fascinating applications

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for those for the aquarius and the data

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new and fascinating ways to help to a

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of the essential climate variable to

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i'm not a poet

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but today i wish i could write a poem a

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poem of life

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a poem a love a point of happiness

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and looking back on my life i will be

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always grateful to my parents for taking

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me to argentina a country of

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opportunities a country where you can

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let's today give us our thanks to god

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for all these blessings

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your name an affiliation when the

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nora wallace santa barbara news press

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everybody in argentina has been follow

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launch of the satellite through public

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it doesn't go unnoticed for us that

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naturally the united states could have

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history of partnership with argentina

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and we were

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uh pleased and and proud to be

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associated with argentina for sac the

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yeah uh chuck

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chuck got uh the absolute essentials of

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the answer let me just say uh a few

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other things uh

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argentina

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and its and our past collaborations with

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them uh have really helped to

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advance our understanding of the earth

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and understanding the earth as an

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integrated complex system is way too

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hard for any single nation any single

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agency

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but we need to have partners who are

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willing to truly collaborate

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not simply take orders or give orders

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who have vision

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who have

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sustained effort and are willing to

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attack the challenges that arise during

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the many years that these missions are

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under development and argentina has

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proven time and time again with nasa and

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in other ways that the spirit of that

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nation as well as the competence of

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of your scientists uh is there and nasa

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is indeed proud uh to be a collaborator

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with argentina and the other

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international collaborators on this

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hi good morning this is nora barr from

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la nacion in buenos aires

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does the success of this mission up to

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now at least

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let you think about

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uh

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i can answer it in a very simple way

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many years ago

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i have a meeting with nasa at that time

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as administrator and we said okay sake

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sugbee sexy

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well we have to follow up to zita and

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then when we arrive there we have still

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right here in the front

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al staller kvm rfm

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as an amateur astronomer very concerned

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about light pollution also interested in

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the amount of energy that we beam up out

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into space i'm curious if you tell me

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something about the high sensitivity

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camera and the urban light

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well the high sensitivity camera

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actually is already flying in succeed

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and

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i mean

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snow cover there are many things that we

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use that camera for

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also it has another

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reason to be there and this related to a

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problem that we have in argentina which

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is

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and we are using that camera

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just to those people who don't

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any additional questions

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all right

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wait just a second for the microphone

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you know uh from what i understand this

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satellite is supposed to be uh like

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able to collect data that's been uh for

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the past 110 15 25 years been collected

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by buoys and people and ships and stuff

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like that with this you know i'm

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assuming this satellite is going to

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collect in a more accurate and and

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thorough way and collecting areas that

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you haven't been able to do before is it

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going to be useful in terms of comparing

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what the what the uh

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the salinity levels have been in the

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past or is it just from the point this

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point on of monitoring the salinity

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points in the water you know since uh

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since the older methods might not be as

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accurate

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i'll take a i'll take a shot at that

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it's a it's an extremely insightful uh

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and and thoughtful question uh as as the

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questioner uh stated uh

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since since the dawn of of civilization

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uh salinity measurements have been made

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rather sporadically uh by in at points

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and intermittently uh in time with

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varying accuracies uh what uh

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aquarius sac d will be doing will be

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making global measurements

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frequently

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with high

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precision high accuracy and high

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stability

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there are places in the ocean

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particularly in the oceans particularly

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in the northern hemisphere uh where

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we have almost enough

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salinity measurements in the past to be

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able to continue a time series as you

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pointed out

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with aquarius sac d however over vast

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regions reaches of the earth's ocean

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especially in the southern hemisphere in

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the southern oceans this will be

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first measurements so it's a combination

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of extending our knowledge and improving

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those measurements in some areas where

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we already have

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barely reasonable measurements

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but extending

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excellent measurements to areas that

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we could take additional questions if

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hi

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lucas argentina

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how was the contact with the

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the center in faldo del carmen in

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cordoba and

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it's for for baroto and which was the

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the first word you

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when you contact with

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the this center what what

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what was the the what they said and you

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say

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actually the first time that we got in

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contact with them was through the

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president

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it was we just she was just

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as a as the minister

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of our mystery faces

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she was so proud

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she wanted to talk immediately after the

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launch

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so we talked with them immediately after

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the launch

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and what was very important

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is that at cordoba that we are kids from

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our 2mp program

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we have

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we

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a very big outreach effort

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to have space

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information

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not only for scientists

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but not only for production i mean for

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but for kids

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and those kids that were there belong to

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a school one of those but then we have

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some many of them

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that today

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have are using space information

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delivered from satellite ladies

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any follow-ups

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ariel wessler ksby tv

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um my question is i understand that the

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salinity measurements from spaces is a

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first for nasa can you speak to um why

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do this now and kind of what brought on

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the importance of this mission to to

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take salt measurements from space

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certainly as as i

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uh alluded to in in my brief remarks

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the key

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to understanding the earth is not simply

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to understand individual processes but

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rather to understand their linkages

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and

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salinity surface salinity in the ocean

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provides

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linkages and understanding of a number

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of different cycles in the earth if we

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want to understand the water cycle of

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the earth

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we have to understand things like

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evaporation

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and

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precipitation that is the

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the water moving from the land and the

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ocean to the atmosphere and coming from

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the atmosphere back to there uh back to

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the ocean and

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when you rain on the ocean you change

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its salinity the surface salinity

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becomes less when you evaporate water

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from the ocean you change its salinity

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the surface salinity becomes greater

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when you

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freeze water into ice the ice rejects

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the brine and the salinity of the

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surrounding ocean increases so

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the point of making those measurements

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today is that they help us to elucidate

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so many different aspects of the coupled

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processes that define the earth as a

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system furthermore the deep circulation

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of the ocean is driven by density

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differences

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heavy water sinks

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lighter water floats and the salinity

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content of the deep ocean of the

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subsurface ocean

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is a big part of determining the density

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of those waters so if we are to

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understand

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subsurface currents we need to

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understand surface salinity because it's

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at the surface where the

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imprint of salinity is placed on the

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water so it really ties together a lot

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of things it's an extremely timely

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mission but as far as the technology

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this is something we couldn't have done

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five years ago or ten years ago the

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radiate the microwave

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l-band radiometer uh plus the

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scatterometer

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that is used in the aquarius instrument

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is are far and away uh the most accurate

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and precise and stable instruments of

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their type that have ever been flown in

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space this really could not have been

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done

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any further questions we have

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hello thank you for this opportunity my

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name is melissa cabo i'm with the news

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agency of argentina tell them um for mr

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varato minister timmerman i would like

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to know uh what did you feel

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when

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while the launch of the satellite and

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for you mr er gay and mr

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michael um

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having in mind that the past two

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launches were weren't successful i would

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well

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you know i was watching two scenes at

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the same time one was the satellite

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going up

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and the other one was mr baroto

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embracing a lady

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and crying

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and

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that no to see both things i was able to

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better understand the significance of

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this from a human point of view i mean

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then i saw the

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americans and the argentinians at the

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control center embracing themselves

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sometimes for us lay people very

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difficult to understand scientific

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development but i can understand human

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feelings and then i saw how important is

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the cooperation not only from a

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scientific point of view but also the

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the from a human point of view and here

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i saw

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i would just fully agree with you

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yeah i would just just say uh cert

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certainly we were we were thrilled and

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excited

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you know for every launch we we work

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very hard to ensure

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the best we can that we're going to have

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a successful launch opportunity but it's

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a risky business i mean so many things

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can go wrong and sometimes they do

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and we redouble our efforts you know

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every time just to to

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try to look at every little detail to

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make sure nothing goes

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nothing is missed and

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despite all that effort we still kind of

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hold your breath you know while while

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you're going through the the various

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events during launch and i don't

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you know no one was was

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really really comfortable until we saw

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the separation of the

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sakti aquarius from the launch vehicle

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saw the solar rays open up and got

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telemetry from the spacecraft saying

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that we had

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positive power on on the on the uh on

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the spacecraft so it took a long time i

577
00:26:23,750 --> 00:26:21,360
mean by in degrees we were getting more

578
00:26:25,510 --> 00:26:23,760
and more comfortable and excited but you

579
00:26:28,070 --> 00:26:25,520
know we know it's not over until we get

580
00:26:30,149 --> 00:26:28,080
to the the point where the spacecraft is

581
00:26:32,789 --> 00:26:30,159
flying by itself separated from the

582
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launch vehicle and i think we all

583
00:26:38,149 --> 00:26:35,279
breathe the sigh of relief and uh

584
00:26:39,909 --> 00:26:38,159
and uh we're ready to come here and and

585
00:26:42,789 --> 00:26:39,919
tell you all how excited we were about

586
00:26:48,710 --> 00:26:43,990
i'll

587
00:26:51,590 --> 00:26:48,720
four words uh three of which have been

588
00:26:52,630 --> 00:26:51,600
said before uh certainly relief

589
00:27:00,149 --> 00:26:52,640
uh

590
00:27:03,430 --> 00:27:00,159
delta ii

591
00:27:06,789 --> 00:27:03,440
uh on on which sac the aquarius uh was

592
00:27:09,990 --> 00:27:06,799
launched joy obviously uh that the

593
00:27:12,710 --> 00:27:10,000
spacecraft is working so well from the

594
00:27:15,029 --> 00:27:12,720
from the beginning anticipation

595
00:27:17,190 --> 00:27:15,039
uh as a scientist as an oceanographer

596
00:27:19,590 --> 00:27:17,200
indeed uh anticipation of the great

597
00:27:21,990 --> 00:27:19,600
things that that this mission uh is

598
00:27:23,510 --> 00:27:22,000
going is going to be accomplishing and

599
00:27:25,110 --> 00:27:23,520
very personally

600
00:27:27,190 --> 00:27:25,120
hunger

601
00:27:29,510 --> 00:27:27,200
it's been a couple of years since i have

602
00:27:31,350 --> 00:27:29,520
wanted to eat after a launch

603
00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:31,360
and i wanted to eat this morning after

604
00:27:49,990 --> 00:27:45,510
did you have any comments

605
00:27:53,669 --> 00:27:51,190
all right

606
00:27:56,549 --> 00:27:53,679
well in that event that is going to

607
00:27:59,029 --> 00:27:56,559
conclude our post-launch news conference

608
00:28:02,789 --> 00:27:59,039
this morning and our coverage of the

609
00:28:05,029 --> 00:28:02,799
aquarius sacd launch the next event we

610
00:28:07,029 --> 00:28:05,039
hope will be an exciting briefing about

611
00:28:21,669 --> 00:28:07,039
the science that aquarius sac d has

612
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t minus 10

613
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9

614
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8

615
00:28:27,110 --> 00:28:26,159
7

616
00:28:28,149 --> 00:28:27,120
6

617
00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:28,159
5

618
00:28:30,230 --> 00:28:29,200
4

619
00:28:31,269 --> 00:28:30,240
three

620
00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:31,279
two

621
00:28:34,870 --> 00:28:32,240
one

622
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we have ignition

623
00:28:40,389 --> 00:28:37,600
and liftoff of aquarius and the sac d