Status Report

ESA TV Coverage of Delta Mission 17-23 April 2004

By SpaceRef Editor
April 16, 2004
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The ESA TV Service will provide extensive coverage of the upcoming Delta Mission with ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers. A concise overview of next week’s feeds is as follows:

Sat 17 Apr 14:00-14:30 GMT Launcher rollout and final crew preperations B-roll

Mon 19 Apr 01:20-02:30 GMT Launch-day pre-launch B-roll: crew walk-out, suit-up, departure to launch pad, farewell to officials. Live launch pad images.

Mon 19 Apr 02:30-03:30 GMT Delta Launch Live Transmission: Turnaround of NASA-TV live coverage, including summary of pre-launch events. English mission commentary

Wed 21 Apr 04:00-05:30 GMT Soyuz – ISS Docking Live Transmission: Turnaround of NASA-TV live coverage, including summary of pre-docking events. English mission commentary

Wed 21 Apr 06:00-07:15 GMT Soyuz to ISS Ingress Live Transmission: Turnaround of NASA-TV live coverage, including dokcing filmed from ISS. English mission commentary

Wed 21 Apr 07:30-08:15 GMT In-flight-call with ISS from Eindhoven: Dutch Prime Minister Jan-Peter Balkenende talking with Andre Kuipers. Multi-camera live feed. In Dutch

Thu 22 Apr 06:40-07:10 In-flight-call with ISS from Basisschool Klaverweide/Noordwijk: Dutch Minister of Education Maria van der Hoeven talking with Andre Kuipers. Multi-camera live feed. In Dutch

Fri 23 Apr 12:15-12:45 Joint Crew News Conference with the ISS, with journalists gathering in Houston, Moscow and Noordwijk/Netherlands. Turnaround of NASA-TV coverage. In English.

All transmission details, including downlink data, have been posted on the ESA TV Web site.

For further information and a daily update of the transmission schedule, visit our website at http://television.esa.int. For all enquires, contact Claus Habfast, Tel +31 71 565 3838, Fax +31 71 565 6340, e-mail claus.habfast@esa.int.

SpaceRef staff editor.