Eneide Mission Summary / ESA TV Exchanges / 26-04-2005

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

26-Apr-05 08:30 – 08:45 GMT

Eneide Mission Summary

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 26 April 15:00 GMT – 15:15 GMT

Replay II: 30 April 10:30-10:45 GMT

The Eneide mission to the International Space Station ended at 22:07 GMT on 24 April 2005 with the landing of ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori in the Soyuz TMA-5 spacecraft.

The major objectives of this ten-day mission, eight of which were spent in the ISS, were all achieved, notably completion of 22 experiments in the fields of biology, human physiology, technology and education.

Vittori, as Flight Engineer, took an active role in re-entry, descent and landing operations, alongside the Russian cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov and the NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao. Both were the returning from a long-term ISS mission begun in October 2004.

Many of the experiments had been developed by Italian researchers and built by Italian industry and research institutions. Scientists from Denmark, Germany, Russia, Switzerland, the USA and from ESA were involved in the Eneide Programme.

In addition to the experimental programme, the Eneide mission served to exchange the permanent ISS crew. Sergei Krikalev from Roscosmos and John Phillips from NASA travlled together with Roberto Vittori to the ISS and will stay there until Octber 2005.

Today’s Exchnage provides the highlights of the Eneide mission, from last launch preparations in Baikonur through the return to Earth of the astronaut, and includes the best images recorded in orbit that Vittori brought back to Earth on tape, plus an interview recorded after his landing.

The script will be online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int

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 www.esa.int/eneide.

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

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