SOHO – 10 Years in Orbit Today / ESA TV News / 02-12-2005
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be: 02-Dec-05 12:00 – 12:15 GMT SOHO – 10 Years in Orbit Today ESA TV News
Background information on the transmission:
Replay: 2 December 2005, 16:00-16:15 GMT
Today, ten years ago, on 2 December 1995, SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory was launched.
The images SOHO sent back to Earth have revealed our Mother Star as ever-changing, surrounded by a hot corona, featuring solar quakes on the surface and violent eruptions of particles into space. Most importantly, SOHO delivered the first detailed visual recording of one full sun-cycle.
To celebrate this anniversary of the SOHO launch, NASA has produced a 7-minute B-roll with a “best-of” from 10 years of SOHO, most newly compiled and animated. These cover, inter alia:
– One Amazing Solar Cycle in a single animation sequence
– Spectacular Storms
– The record-breaking solar flares of October and November 2003
– SOHO Detects Comets – the 1,000th comet was spotted this past July
– SOHO Launch, Animation and Control Room.
– Interview, Daniel Mueller, SOHO Deputy Project Scientist, ESA
All sequences are preceded by detailed explaination slates and URLs with additional info.
Please note that this feed is NOT on “Europe by Satellite” but on an occasional use transponder, the details of which are listed below.
More background information can be found on http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=38381.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT W1 at 10 degrees east, Transponder B4 middle, channel 1, vertical (SCPC), F=11080 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4 (uplink ident Krenotec/Belgacom tower)
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