Unveiling Name & Logo Next Soyuz Taxi / ESA TV News / 06-06-2002
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
06-Jun-02 13:00 – 13:15 GMT
Unveiling Name & Logo Next Soyuz Taxi Flight
ESA TV News
Background information on the transmission:
ESA astronaut Frank De Winne, from Belgium, has finished mission training at ESA’s space research and technology centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands on some of the scientific experiments he will have to work on during his flight to the International Space Station in autumn.
On Thursday 6 June, in the presence of Mr Charles Picqué, Belgian Minister for Scientific Research, Mr Yvan Ylieff, Belgian Commissioner in charge of Scientific Policy and Mr Ernst Messerschmid, Head of ESA’s European Astronaut Centre, the mission’s name and logo will be unveiled during a media event at ESTEC.
Frank De Winne will be flight engineer on a Soyuz “taxi flight” to the International Space Station, an 8 to 10-day mission scheduled for late October, and funded by the Belgian Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs (OSTC).
This transmission includes images, in B-roll format and with clean international sound, of the unveiling of the mission logo, and of the event. The logo will be presented, in English, Flemish and French, by Frank de Winne.
More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int
Transmission details: Eutelsat W1, 10 degrees East
Transponder B5, dig ch 1, horizontal (SCPC)
F=11.135 MHz, FEC=3/4, SR=5.632 MS/sec
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