Status Report

Meteosat 25 years / ESA TV Exchanges / 08-11-2002

By SpaceRef Editor
November 7, 2002
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

08-Nov-02 13:00 – 13:15 GMT

Meteosat 25 years

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Please note that the previous e-mail was for the replay which takes place on Friday at 19:45 GMT

Replay I: 8 November 19:45 – 20:00 GMT

Replay II: 9 November 08:15 – 08:30 GMT

The first Meteosat satellite was launched 25 years ago, on 23 November 1977. Their images have sine then become a daily feature of TV weather forecasting. Broadcasters wishing to report on this anniversary will find in this Exchange all background footage on a quarter century European satellite meteorology.

The programme comprises of a 5-minute A-roll with split track and commentary and is complemented by a B-Roll with clean international sound.The script will be available on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS26989.pdf

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/index.

More background information can be found on .

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.