Rosetta Update / ESA TV Exchanges / 23-02-2007
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
23-Feb-07 10:10 – 10:25 GMT
Rosetta Update
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay 1: 23 January 16:00-16:15 GMT
Replay 2: 24 January, 11:30-11:45 GMT
On Sunday 25 February, ESAs Rosetta probe will come, on its journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, within 250 kilometres of the surface of planet Mars. This critical swingby manooevre uses the gravity of the Red Planet to speed up Rosetta towards its final target.
Rosetta was launched on 2 March 2004 and is the first probe ever designed to enter orbit around a comet and release a lander onto its surface. But before, it will have performed three Earth and one Mars swingbys in all.
Today’s Exchange includes pre-event footage for the swingby, including new 3-D animations, soundbites by Rosetta Project Scientist Gerhard Schwehm and a review of Rosetta science observations in the 3 years since launch.
The script is online now as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS50943.pdf
A WMV preview clip will be online early on 23 February under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/rosetta_flyby_22-02-07_wmphigh.wmv
A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (ca 1000 MB) will be online early on 23 February. Due to the file size, please use a download manager:
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mpeg2/rosetta_flyby_22-02-07_mpeg2ps.mpg
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
This programme is also available in broadcast quality via ftp-transfer, from ftp://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/rosetta_flyby_22-02-07_wmphigh.wmv – please use your userid kcowing@reston.com and password 8dwnrd84 for fetching the file from the ESA TV server.
More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int.
Transmission details:
EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13 degrees 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.
