Status Report

Taking on New ESA Member States / ESA TV Exchanges / 19-01-2007

By SpaceRef Editor
January 18, 2007
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The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

19-Jan-07 10:10 – 10:25 GMT

Taking on New ESA Member States

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 19 January 16:00-16:15 GMT

Replay 2: 20 January, 11:30-11:45 GMT

ESA currently counts 17 Member States, and between now an 2011, more European countries will join, bringing the total number above twenty.

Today’s Exchange documents visits to hi-tech companies in Portugal and Luxemburg, who joined ESA some years ago, and investigates whether the Membership of their country in ESA has led to new business in the space sector.

The Exchange includes interviews with executives from these companies, and recordings of development and production activitires on their premises.

The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/

A WMV preview clip is online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mphi/new_members_29-11-06_wmphigh.wmv

A broadcast quality Mpeg-2 file (featuring A-roll only, 276 MB) is also online. Due to the file size, please use a download manager:

http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mpeg2/new_members_29-11-06_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

More background information can be found on http://www.esa.int/home-ind/index.html.

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.

SpaceRef staff editor.