First Women Bedrest Study / ESA TV Exchanges / 03-12-2004
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
03-Dec-04 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
First Women Bedrest Study
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 3 December 19:45-20:00 GMT
Replay II: 4 December 14:00 -14:15 GMT
In February 2005, 24 women, all carefully selected volunteers, will remain in bed, with their head slightly tilted down, for as long as two months. Not being an astronaut, this is the closest one can get to experiencing the effects of long-term space missions in the organism and develop counter-measures that will help prevent the loss of bone mass, muscular atrophy or changes in the cardio-vascular system. All are necessary improvements, if the human machine is to match ESA plans for interplanetary travel and missions to Mars that could take up to 3 years.
Today’s Programme provides pre-event footage for this female bed rest study, including location recordings at the MEDES space clinic, soundbites with ESA and CNES experts, and images of women in the ISS.
The Exchange is made of an A-roll of five minutes with split audio (English/atmo) and of a B-roll of 8 minutes with clean international sound
The script is on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS37309.pdf
A Media Player File for preview is on line now under
http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/wbeddft_01122004_wmpd.wmv
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.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMI430A90E_index_0.html.
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.
