ESA TV News – STS-104 Presentations

This ESA TV News transmission will take place on

05 June 2001

16:00-16:30 GMT STS-104 Pre-Flight Video File (NASA TV)

and

19:00-19:45 GMT STS-104 Pre-FlightCrew News Conference (NASA TV)

Please note the non-usual satellite parameters below.

Preflight presentations on the next Shuttle mission, STS-104 to the International Space Station which is scheduled to take place early July. The Space Shuttle Atlantis will carry the new Joint Airlock and a fiver-member crew to the station. The International Space Station’s new robotic arm, Canadarm2, will be used to lift STS-104’s primary cargo, the Joint Airlock, out of Atlantis’s payload bay and attach it to the station The Joint Airlock is a pressurized flight element consisting of two cylindrical chambers attached end-to-end by a connecting bulkhead and hatch. Once installed and activated, the Airlock becomes the primary path for International Space Station space walk entry and departure.

STS-104 Pre-Flight Video File – NASA TV edited B-roll which includes animated graphics depicting the mission.

STS-104 Pre-Flight Crew News Conference – an introduction to the crew and a chance for the press to ask questions about the mission. The five-member crew comprises of Commander Steven W. Lindsey, Pilot Charles O.Hobaugh, Mission Specialists Michael L. Gernhardt, James F. Reilly and Janet L. Kavandi.

Satellite Parameters:

NSS-K at 21.5 degrees West

Transponder H07, vertical, dig ch 1

F=11.591 MHz, SR=20150 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

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