Status Report

Highlights on Atlantis/ Columbus/ ISS / ESA TV News / 19-02-2008

By SpaceRef Editor
February 19, 2008
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

19-Feb-08 22:00 – 22:40 GMT

Highlights on Atlantis/ Columbus/ ISS

ESA TV News

Background information on the transmission:

While Columbus is fully part of the International Space Station, Atlantis is on its return trip. Highlights of this Flight Day 13 will show the crew of Atlantis readying the shuttle for landing – now scheduled for Wednesday at 15:07 CET. During the day they will also give in-flight interviews with US news media.

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.