Status Report

SSETI Express Launch – Live Transmission / ESA TV Live / 27-10-2005

By SpaceRef Editor
October 26, 2005
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

27-Oct-05 06:30 – 07:05 GMT

SSETI Express Launch – Live Transmission

ESA TV Live

Background information on the transmission:

All is set for the launch tomorrow of SSETI Express, ESA’s first student-built satellite. the launcher was rolled out to the launch pad earlier today, has been erected and is being filled now. Weather conditions are fine.

The ESA TV Service will provide a launch live transmission, produced at Space Expo near ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands, with live images from the Plessetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. The lift-off is scheduled for 06:52 GMT.

A detailed running order for the clean feed is online under http://television.esa.int/photos/SSETI_27102995.pdf

More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM3IY3J2FE_index_0.html.

Transmission details:Eutelsat W2 at 16 degrees east

Transponder B6, channel G (vertical), SCPC/4:2:0

F=11.181 MHz, SR=5.632 MS/sec, FEC=3/4

For general-public viewers, the transmission is also live on Astra 1G. See http://television.esa.int/photos/Astra.pdf

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.