Update on Envisat Symposium 2004 / ESA TV Exchanges / 10-09-2004
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
10-Sep-04 08:30 – 08:45 GMT
Update on Envisat Symposium 2004
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 10 September 18:45-19:00 GMT
Replay II: 11 Sepember 13:15 -13:30 GMT
Since 6 September, Salzburg in Austria has been hosting over 800 scientists from 53 different countries for the Envisat Symposium to present, discuss and exchange results collected since the launch of the largest Earth Observation spacecraft ever built. After two and a half years in orbit, all instruments are in perfect working condition and results from many areas of Earth sciences and environmental monitoring were presented.
Today’s transmission provides an overview of the most important results, including soundbites by leading scientists Duncan Wingham (GB) and Hennie Kelder (NL), of EC representative Marco Malacarne and ESA Director Jose Achache. Images and animations presented to the audience were transferred onto video, and some deonstrations of real-time delivery of Envisat data on, for example, Hurricane Frances, filmed at the symposium exhibition.
The future looks promising as Envisat still has 75% of its fuel left, opening up the prospect of ten-year mission instead of five originally envisaged.
The images were recorded 6 and 7 September. The Envisat symposium concludes on Friday 10 September.
The programme includes an A-roll of five minutes (split audio – English voiceover) and a B-roll of 8 minutes with clean international sound.
The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS35920.pdf
This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Web site at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/schedule.cfm
More background information can be found on http://www.congrex.nl/04a06/.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13° East (DVB/MPEG-2)
Horizontal, F=12,476 MHz (MCPC, Europe by Satellite)
SR=27,500 MS/sec, FEC=3/4
For further information, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For other enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.
