ESA TV Service ESA TV Exchanges / 03-09-2004
Subject: ESA TV Service / Change of transmission time / 03 -09-2004
Due to a newly scheduled press conference, the transmission times of tomorrow’s ESA TV Exchange have changed. The first transmission slot has been advanced by 30 minutes and is now scheduled as follows:
3 September 2004 08:45-09:00 GMT
Passing Expertise across Generations
ESA TV Exchanges
The replays remain at the previously scheduled times:
Replay I: 3 September 18:45-19:00 GMT
Replay II: 4 Sepember 13:00 – 13:15 GMT
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 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.
The ESA TV Service is back from its summer break. The next transmission is scheduled for
3 September 09:15-09:30 GMT
Replay I: 3 September 18:45-19:00 GMT
Replay II: 4 Sepember 13:00 – 13:15 GMT
Passing Expertise across Generations
ESA TV Exchanges
Deep space missions often require more than a decade between inception and availability of science data. If these are to be fully exploited, scientists have to ensure the continuity of their research by encouraging their younger colleagues.
Today’s programme features one of the many research centres participating in long-term ESA missions – the Open University’s at Milton Keynes near London – and talked with three well-known scientists, aged 65, 54 and 38. It turns out that team work among these faculty members is what really ensures the continuity of long-term research across generations of researchers.
This multi-generational aspect of space missions is accentuated by the phenomenal quantities of data that are collected. Investigators with instruments on for example Cassini-Huygens recognise that information to be sent back on Saturn and its largest moon Titan will keep scientists occupied for ten, perhaps even twenty years- whilst they are still learning things from the data obtained by the Voyager probes which just flew past the ringed planet in the early 80s.
The programme includes an A-roll of five minutes (split audio – English voiceover) and a B-roll of 8 minutes with clean international sound.
The script will be on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS35904.pdf
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/index_en.
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 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.
