ESA Broadcast Centre Schedule

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
25-Apr-03 12:00 – 12:30 GMT

Mars Express studying the atmosphere and climate

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 25 April, 18:30-19:00 GMT

Replay 2: 26 April, 09:15-09:45 GMT

Early June, ESA will launch Mars Express, its first mission to another planet. Today’s transmission is the first in a series of five ESA TV Exchanges on this mission and Martian exploration in general.

The Mars Express orbiter will carry instruments that will study the red planet’s atmosphere in great detail. Looking for trace gases might help us answering the question whether water (and life) once existed on Mars, and why it disappeared.

The programme comprises of a 7 minute A-roll with split audio (English commentary/international sound) and is complimented by a 20-minute B-Roll with clean international sound.

The script will be available on the day of transmission as a PDF document, under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS29471.pdf

A preview of the A-roll can be downloaded as a Media Plater file from http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/mxp1fin_20042003_wmphigh.wmv

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission’s “Europe by Satellite” (EbS) Service. You can find the complete transmission shcedule and download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV items, from the EbS Website at http://europa.eu.int/comm/ebs/index

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

Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13 degrees 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.

With kind regards

ESA TV Service