STS-122/Columbus – Inflight call with Chancellor Merkel / ESA TV Live / 14-02-2008

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

14-Feb-08 14:00 – 15:35 GMT

STS-122/Columbus – Inflight call with Chancellor Merkel

ESA TV Live

Background information on the transmission:

This Thursday 14 February,at the German Ministry of Economics and Technology in Berlin, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, together with ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain will make an inflight call to the ISS. They will talk with European astronauts Hans Schlegel and Leopold Eyharts, and with Shuttle Commander Steve Frick, ISS Commander Peggy Whitson and Russian crewmember Yuri Malenchenko.

The call will be part of a wider event with German Space Agency DLR.

Satellite coordinates for the event are given below.

For further information from DLR please contact: Andreas Schultz

Tel: + 49 30 67055-130

Mob: + 49 171 312 6466

More background information can be found on .

Transmission details:

Astra 3A at 23.5degE

Transponder 06 slot 1

Downlink freq 11541.50 MHz polarisation vertical

Symbol rate 6.1113 Ms/s FEC 3/4

For further information on these feeds, please contact the ESA TV producer Chris Courtenay

Taylor: tel + 44 7774 275 951 or mail chrisct@worldwidegroup.ltd.uk

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With kind regards

ESA TV Service