Odissea Mission to ISS: Frank De Winne Training/ESA TV Exchanges/11-10-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

11-Oct-02 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

Odissea Mission to ISS: Frank De Winne Training

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 11 October 18:45 – 19:00 GMT

Replay II: 12 October 06:30 – 07:15 GMT

On 28 October 2002, the Belgian ESA astronaut Frank De Winne will lift off for an 11-day space mission to visit the International Space Station. This mission, callede Odissea and sponsored by the Belgian government, will be covered extensively by the ESA TV Service. Today’s transmission provides an overview of Frank De Winne’s training, his professional background and the Soyuz crew members.

The programme comprises of a 5-minute A-roll with split track and English commentary and is complemented by a B-Roll with clean international sound.The script is available on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS26502.pdf

A Windows Media Player preview of the transmission can be downloaded from http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/fdwfinal_03102002_wmplow.wmv

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.

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.