00:03Behind the roar of the engines and the visual spectacle of each liftoff at Europe's spaceport
00:08in French Guiana, the critical division is at work whose role tends to go unnoticed,
00:13unless something goes wrong, the flight safety division.
00:17Your news spoke to one of the engineers who makes sure it all runs smoothly.
00:21The flight safety division is responsible for the protection of people from the launch
00:25onwards until the decommissioning of all the rocket parts involved in the launch.
00:29We do this by tracking the rocket with a trajectory analysis in real time
00:33and also thanks to the analysis of weather data in real time before the launch.
00:39So it goes very fast. We are trained to act very fast in a very coordinated way.
00:45So we have a simulator in which we train every week, sometimes a couple of times a week
00:52so that we have qualifications to be able to act very fast during the launch.
00:56So it is a decision that is taken among all the team and then we decide to stop the flight
01:03by the neutralization command.
01:05Very simply, we have a flight corridor that is calculated before each launch
01:09and if the rocket goes through this flight corridor, it means that it can get dangerous
01:13so we stop the flight and we interrupt the flight.
01:16So we have a flight corridor until we overfly the first countries
01:20so then we are not above ocean anymore and so we stop the intervention possibility.
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