Marco Polo Mission Highlights / ESA TV Exchanges / 15-03-2005

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

15-Mar-05 09:15 – 09:30 GMT

Marco Polo Mission Highlights

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 15 March 16:00-16:15 GMT

The next ESA astronaut to visit the ISS will be Roberto Vittori from Italy, on a 10-day Soyuz mission scheduled for launch on 15 April at 00:45 GMT from Baikonur. The ESA TV Service will provide extensive coverage of this mission and because Roberto Vittori is the first European to visit the ISS for a second time, the first element of mission coverage is the replay of the “Marco Polo Highlights” from May 2002. This was Vittori’s first ISS mission, in the company of Mark Shuttleworth, South-African multi-millionnaire and space tourist.

The script is on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS38756.pdf

A preview Media Player file is online under http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/marcopolosummary_06_wmphigh.wmv

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.spaceflight.esa.int/users/file.cfm?filename=iss01-sme.

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.

With kind regards

ESA TV Service