Envisat Update 2006: Public Safety / ESA TV Exchanges / 19-05-2006

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

19-May-06 09:15 – 09:35 GMT

Envisat Update 2006: Public Safety

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1 – 19 May 15.00-15.20 GMT

Replay 2 – 20 May 10.30-10.50 GMT

Envisat, launched on 28 February 2002, is the biggest European satellite ever built. Four years into its mission, ESA asked leading scientists to assess the achievements so far.

This is the second in a series of two Exchanges on this subject.

The interview comments, together with new Envisat imagery and animations plus background footage, cover Envisat achievements in the field of public safety.

The Exchange is made of an A-roll of 4 minutes with English voiceover (split audio) plus a B-roll with clean international sound.

The soundbites are in English plus in the B-roll, in the scientists’ mother tongue. For this reason, the run time of the transmission is 20 instead of 15 minutes. The scientists include:

Fabio Rocca, Politecnico di Milano

Barry Parsons, University of Oxford

Johnny Johannessen, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre, Norway

The A-roll script script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS46317.pdf

A WMV preview file is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/m4w/Envisat_PublicSafety_2006.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/schedule.cfm

More background information can be found on http://envisat.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.