Story from Rosetta: the Comet Tail/ESA TV Exchanges/03-12-2002

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

03-Dec-02 13:00 – 13:15 GMT

Story from Rosetta: the Comet Tail

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay I: 3 December, 19:45-20:00 GMT

Replay II: 7 December, 08:00-08:15 GMT

On 13 January 2003, ESA’s Rosetta space probe will be launched on a nine-year voyage to comet Wirtanen. Rosetta will be the first probe to land on a comet. Today’s transmission is the fourth in a series of five TV Exchanges on Rosetta, and features the investigation of the comet’s tail by the Rosetta orbiter. The comet tail is made of cometary matter vaporized by the radiation of the Sun, and the instruments on Rosetta will make a comprehensive chemical and physical analysis of the particles the tail is composed of.

The programme comprises of a 8-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/EbS27434.pdf

A Windows Media Player preview of the transmission can be downloaded from http://esa.capcave.com/wmp/rosfin4_13112002_wmplow.wmv

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 http://sci.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.