Venus Express Pre-launch B-roll / ESA TV News / 08-11-2005

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

08-Nov-05 10:00 – 10:30 GMT

Venus Express Pre-launch B-roll

ESA TV News

Background information on the transmission:

The launch of Venus Express is scheduled for 9 November 2005 at 03:33 GMT.

Fifteen hours before lift-off, the ESA TV Service will provide a final pre-event feed, as follows:

15 minutes of B-roll material on last launch preparations and the roll-out of the Soyuz launcher at the Cosmodrome in Baikonur.

15 minutes of general Venus Express background footage, including 3-D animations.

The feed will be ex ESOC. During line-up, colour bars with a “news equipe” SNG vehicle ident will be transmitted.

More background information can be found on www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/.

Transmission details:Eutelsat W2 at 16 degrees east

Transponder B6, channel F (vertical), SCPC/4:2:0

F=11.172 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4