Philippe Perrin prepares for STS-111/ESA TV Exchanges/21-05-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

21-May-02 12:00 – 12:15 GMT

Philippe Perrin prepares for STS-111

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Please note the change in transmission time for the first transmission!

Replay I: 21 May 02 18:45 – 19:00 GMT

Replay II: 25 May 02 07:00 – 07:15 GMT

Philippe Perrin, an astronaut of the French Space Agency CNES, will lift off to the International Space Station as of 31 May from Cape Canaveral. After ESA’s Umberto Guidoni, Perrin is the second European to participate in an ISS assembly mission.

For his first flight, the French astronaut will carry out three space walks to install equipment necessary to the continuation of the assembly of the Station and also replace a joint on the Canadian arm.

The STS-111 mission will also carry scientific instruments to the ISS, among them the ESA-developed Microgravity Sciences Glovebox.

This transmission on the preparation of Philippe Perrin on his mission has been produced by the French Space Agency CNES, and carries a French voiceover.

The programme is in A-roll format, i.e. without a B-roll, and with numerous French soundbites in the A-roll. The script is on-line as of the end of today, as a PDF document as of 23 May.

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 http://www.cnes.fr.

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.