Status Report

ISS Update May 2006 / ESA TV Exchanges / 28-04-2006

By SpaceRef Editor
April 27, 2006
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

28-Apr-06 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

ISS Update May 2006

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 28 April 2006, 15:00-15:15 GMT

Replay 2: 29 April 2006, 10:30-10:45 GMT

On Tuesday 2 May 2006, the German Chancellor Andrea Merkel will participate at a ceremony in Bremen (Germnay) to mark the completion of the Columbus Laboratory, Europe’s major contriobution to the International Space Station.

As pre-event footage for this story, the ESA TV Service transmits an ISS Update with a concise and topical overview of this project, and the upcoming ISS missions with European participation.

The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS45914.pdf

A WMV preview file is online under http://television.esa.int/photos/ISSUpdate28042006.wmv – please download first and then launch player.

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/SEML8AOFGLE_index_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.

SpaceRef staff editor.