Herschel – the biggest space telescope ever / ESA TV Exchanges / 02-03-2007
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
02-Mar-07 10:10 – 10:25 GMT
Herschel – the biggest space telescope ever
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay 1: 2 March 16:00-16:15 GMT
Replay 2: 3 March, 11:30-11:45 GMT
PLEASE NOTE THE NEW EUROPE BY SATELLITE DOWNLINK DETAILS BELOW!
With its 3,5 meter mirror and cryogenic science payload, the Herschel Space Observatory will deliver unprecedented images and spectra of very cool, distant, and poorly known objects in the universe. As the first of a new generation of space telescopes, Herschel will be studying stars being born in our own Galaxy, the evolution of newborn galaxies billions of light-years away, and primitive objects dating from the formation of our own solar system. Herschel will provide unprecedented sensitivity and resolution, thanks to the largest mirror ever used in space and three instruments with detectors kept at temperatures close to absolute zero.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS49188.pdf
A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/Herschel_27-02-07_wmphigh.wmv
A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (ca 975 MB) is online. To get a userid and password for ftp-download of ESA footage, please go to http://television.esa.int/subscribe.cfm
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
This programme is also available in broadcast quality via ftp-transfer, from ftp://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/Herschel_27-02-07_mpeg2ps.mpg – please use your userid kcowing@reston.com and password 8dwnrd84 for fetching the file from the ESA TV server.
More background information can be found on http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=34682.
Transmission details:
Sirius 2 at 4.8 degrees East, Transponder B1, Horizontal (Europe by Satellite)
F=11727.5 MHz, Symbol rate 27500 MS/sec, FEC 3/4
Audio pids: International sound=201 English=202
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.
