Venus Express – Next Stop Venus / ESA TV Exchanges / 07-10-2005

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

07-Oct-05 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

Venus Express – Next Stop Venus

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 7 October 15:00-15:15 GMT

Replay 2: 8 October, 10:45-11:00 GMT

In less than three weeks from now, ESA will launch Venus Express, Europe’s first mission to our sister planet.

Today’s transmission looks at the spacecraft, how it was built, and why it so closely resembles Mars Express, ESA’s other planetary mission.

The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS41664.pdf

A pre-view video clip can be downloaded from

http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/VEXPsuj2_08092005_wmplow.wmv (Media Player, 3.6 MB) or

http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/qthi/VEXPsuj2_08092005_qthigh.mov (Quicktime 11.6 MB)

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/Venus_Express/.

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.