Envisat VNR / ESA TV Exchanges / 26-02-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

26-Feb-02 10:15 – 10:30 GMT

Envisat VNR

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 26 Feb 02 19:45 – 20:00 GMT

Replay II: 02 Mar 02 08:00 – 08:45 GMT

On the evening of the 28 February ESA’s new earth observation satellite Envisat will be launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guayana. The eight ton satellite will continue a programme of monitoring the Earth from space started 15 years ago with ESA’s ERS satellite.

This programme provides an overview of Envisat and explains how the satellite’s sophisticated instruments will be used in a variety of different fundtions from global disaster management to ozone level detection.

The 5-minute A-roll contains split audio with an English guide track and is complemented by a B-roll with international sound only. The script is on-line as of the day of transmission, as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS23846.pdf

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

More background information can be found on .

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