Status Report

STS-121 Crew Arrival in Florida / ESA TV Live / 12-06-2006

By SpaceRef Editor
June 12, 2006
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

12-Jun-06 21:45 – 22:00 GMT

STS-121 Crew Arrival in Florida

ESA TV Live

Background information on the transmission:

On 12 June 2006, the Crew for the next Shuttle mission, STS-121, will arrive at Cape Canaveral in Florida for the so-called Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test. This is a dress rehearsal by the crew of the final hours and the final countdown towards their launch.

ESA TV provides a live rebroadcast of the NASA-TV live coverage of the crew arrival, when the 7 astronauts, among them ESA’s Thomas Reiter, arrive in small T-38 jets on the Shuttle landing strip.

Please note that the line-up time for this SCPC feed is 5 minutes.

More background information can be found on http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html.

Transmission details:Eutelsat Atlantic Bird at 12.5 degrees West

Transponder F5, channel 1 (SCPC) horizontal, F=12643 MHz, SR=6.1113 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.

SpaceRef staff editor.