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ESA Astronaut appointed to Shuttle mission / ESA TV News / 14-02-2007

By SpaceRef Editor
February 13, 2007
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

14-Feb-07 07:00 – 07:00 GMT

ESA Astronaut appointed to Shuttle mission

ESA TV News

Background information on the transmission:

Replay: 14 February 21:00-21:15 GMT

ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts of France has today been assigned to fly onboard the International Space Station for the delivery and commissioning of the European Columbus laboratory currently planned for this autumn.

He will be a member of the Expedition 16 crew to the ISS. He is set to fly there on Space Shuttle (Discovery) mission STS-122 and will return home with the (Endeavour) STS-123 crew some two months later.

ESA releases a B-roll with some 15 minutes of recent training footage of Eyharts including soundbites.

The script will be online by 21:00 GMT on 13 February, on the ESA TV Website.

A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (909 MB) is online under

http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mpeg2/leopold_eyharts_12-02-07_mpeg2ps.mpg

Please use a download manager.

This programme is also available in broadcast quality via ftp-transfer, from ftp://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/leopold_eyharts_12-02-07_mpeg2ps.mpg – please use your userid kcowing@reston.com and password 8dwnrd84 for fetching the file from the ESA TV server.

More background information can be found on 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.

SpaceRef staff editor.