Envisat Launch Summary/ESA TV Exchanges/22-03-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

22-Mar-02 13:00 – 13:15 GMT

Envisat Launch Summary

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Please note the altered time of Friday’s transmission.

Replay I: 22 Mar 02 19:45 – 20:00 GMT

Replay II: 23 Mar 02 08:30 – 08:45 GMT

On the night of the 28 February to 01 March ESA’s new Earth Observation satellite was successfully launched on board an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou French Guyana. This programme is a summary of the satellites journey from the test centre at ESA’s ESTEC site (The Netherlands), to Kourou (French Guayana)and finally to polar orbit, 800km above the Earth on board an Ariane 5 rocket

The 5-minute A-roll contains split audio with an English guide track and is complemented by a B-roll with international sound only, including sound bites with ESA scientists. The script is on-line as of the day of transmission, as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS24360.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

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.