Rosetta Ready for Launch / ESA TV Exchanges / 24-02-2004
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
24-Feb-04 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
Rosetta Ready for Launch
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 24 February 19:45 – 20:00 GMT
Replay II: 28 February 10:00 – 10:15 GMT
Today’s transmission provides, two days prior to the scheduled launch of Rosetta, an overview of the mission together with latest footage of launch preparation in Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, and new 3-D graphics of the 11-year travel to the target comet.
The programme comprises of a 3-minute A-roll with split track and commentary and is complemented by a B-Roll with clean international sound. The script is on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS33433.pdf
A Windows Media Player preview of the transmission can be downloaded from
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_en.
More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int/rosetta.
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.
