90 Days in Bed for Space Research / ESA TV Exchanges / 07-09-2001

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

07-Sep-01 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

90 Days in Bed for Space Research

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

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/index.html

Spending a long time in a weightless environment has an impact on the human body, and evidence exists of changes to the bone and muscles of astronauts who have participated in long-duration missions in space. To cope with the requirements of long-stay missions aboard the International Space Station, the European Space Agency, together with the French space agency CNES and the Japanese space agency NASDA, are validating countermeasures through a preventive-medicine ground-based simulation that makes use of the bed rest model.

Today’s transmission provides an overview of this pioneering bed rest study with soundbytes by various experts. The 7-minute A-roll contains split audio with an English guide track and is complemented by a B-roll with clean international sound. The script and shot list will be available online as of tomorrow morning.

More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int.

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.