Status Report

FD6/7 Highlights on Atlantis/Columbus/ISS / ESA TV News / 14-02-2008

By SpaceRef Editor
February 13, 2008
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

14-Feb-08 05:55 – 06:30 GMT

FD6/7 Highlights on Atlantis/Columbus/ISS

ESA TV News

Background information on the transmission:

Columbus is now attached to the International Space Station and European astronauts Schlegel and Eyharts made official first ingress at 15:08 yesterday 12th Feb. Footage is included in Flight day 6 highlights received this morning, Weds 13 Feb. The crew are now preparing the European laboratory.

Highlights of Flight Day 7 (Weds 13 Feb) will include the extra vehicular activity (EVA#2) to replace a Nitrogen tank assembly. Hans Schlegel will be one of the spacewalkers.

Satellite coordinates given below. The line-up time for all ESA SCPC feeds is minus 5 minutes.

Approximately 1 hour later, this feed will be avalailable for MPEG2 download via ftp: Server name: esa.contentcoders.com Login: esa Password/userid: ftp4esa Please be informed that the file will be too big to access via a web browser and that you need to use a ftp download manager.

More background information can be found on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/.

Transmission details:

Eutelsat Atlantic Bird 1 (AB1) at 12.5degW, Transponder F5, Channel E, F = 12660.75MHz, Pol = horizontal,SR = 6.1113 Ms/s, FEC = 3/4, signal MPEG2 4:2:0 in the clear For further information on these feeds, please contact the ESA TV producer Chris Courtenay Taylor: tel + 44 7774 275 951 or mail chrisct@worldwidegroup.ltd.uk

For the latest transmission schedule, go to http://television.esa.int. For all enquires on transmissions, send contact ingrid.van.de.vyver@esa.int or call her mobile phone +32 495 209541. For ordering video tapes and questions on footage via ftp-transfer, contact television@esa.int.

SpaceRef staff editor.