ESOC – European Space Operations Centre / ESA TV Exchanges / 28-01-2005
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
28-Jan-05 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
ESOC – European Space Operations Centre
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 28 January 16:00-16:15 GMT
Huygens arriving at Titan; Mars Express entering an orbit around the red planet; Envisat collecting GigaBytes of information on the Earth: Europe’s most sophisticated space missions have all in common that they are controlled by ESOC, the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, near Frankfurt.
Today’s Exchange outlines how ESA’s engineers there perform their difficulkt task. The programme includes ample recordings from main and specialised mission control rooms, as well as general and exterior views. Also background material on the missions under ESOC control has been included.
The script is on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS37903.pdf
A preview Media Player file is available under
http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/esocdft_11012005_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/SPECIALS/ESOC/.
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.
