ESA TV Service: ESA Ministerial Council Meeting

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

25-Nov-05 10:15 – 10:30 GMT

Preview on ESA Ministerial Council

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 25 November 16:00-16:15 GMT

Replay II: 26 November 11:45-12:00 GMT

The next ESA Ministerial Council will take place 5-6 December in Berlin. Ministers from ESA’s 17 Member States will be discussing important new space programmes, in the areas of Earth observation, planetary exploration and exploitation of the International Space Station.

The Exchange includes pre-event footage required to cover the event.

The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS42494.pdf

A pre-view video clip can be downloaded from http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/minisfnl_22112005_wmplow.wmv (Media Player, 2.7 MB) or http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mp4/minisfnl_22112005_mpg4.mov (Quicktime 13.3 MB)

On 6 December, the ESA TV Service will broadcast the final press conference of the Ministerial Council meeting.

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://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMICOTLWFE_UnitedKingdom_0.html.

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.