[cssm] Retirement...

[Colin.Haddow at esa.int]

Well after almost 36 years after arriving in Darmstadt in September 1986 
its time to hang up my keyboard. Officially I retire at the end of July 
but with leave and things my last working day will be tomorrow (22nd 
June), so it was really quite nice of the Director General to arrange a 
BBQ for my last working day :-)  :-) :-)

Anyway I just wanted to say that I've met a lot of really good people over 
the years, and most of the time its been fun, occasionally frustrating 
(usually due to management) and technically interesting and challenging. 
Looking back I think the most enjoyable parts were working closely with 
the missions as software support/software coordinator; 

Eureca
Iso
Cluster 1 (it was really good to see the eventual successful launch of 
Cluster 2 after the Arianne 501 fiasco)
XMM
Rosetta
MEX (Christmas day 2003, Software coordinator, waiting for the signal from 
Beagle 2 which never came...)

CCSDS was also a really interesting part, it was good to work closely with 
other agencies and see different ways of doing things.

The infrastructure software has also come a long way. When I started it 
was SCOS-1, VAX/VMS and Fortran. On the H/W side we were really pushing 
things, seriously bleeding edge, for about 18 months on Eureca anytime a 
faster VAX was released we got the first one delivered in Europe. Its 
perhaps fitting the my career at ESOC started with the dawning of the 
SCOS-1 era and is drawing to a close as the sun sets on S2K (although I 
think there will be a long twilight...).

Good luck with the future missions and the development of EGS-CC and the 
other projects you're working on.

If you want to keep in touch my e-mail is: chaddow at scotty-enterprizes.com

Finally, in the words of the dolphins from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the 
Galaxy, so long and thanks for all the fish...


Cheers for now,

Colin
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Dr. Colin R. Haddow,
HSO-GI, European Space Agency,
European Space Operations Centre,
Robert-Bosch-Str 5,
64293 Darmstadt,
Germany.

Phone; +49 6151 90 2896
Fax;      +49 6151 90 3010
E-Mail;  colin.haddow at esa.int
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