ESA TV News — info on feed of 15 March

15 March 2001

14:00-14:15 GMT

Please note the different than usual transmission parameters below.

The feed will include the following item:

On Monday morning, the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery mission STS-102 delivered the Leonardo module to the International Space Station.

The module was activated and transfer of racks and equipment from the European-built module into the Space Station is scheduled to start in the night 14-15 March.

The NASA-TV Flight Day Highlights of this night’s and tomorrow morning’s events are transmitted as an ESA TV News item. The item is made of about 10-15 minutes highlight images with clean international sound.

The transmission parameters for the feed are as follows:

NSS-K at 21.5 degrees West, Transponder H07, vertical, dig channel 3 (MCPC), F=11591MHz, SR=20150MS/sec, FEC=3/4

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 chabfast@hq.esa.fr.