The Giotto Rendez-Vous with Comet Halley – Twenty Years Ago / ESA TV Exchanges / 10-03-2006

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:

10-Mar-06 08:30 – 08:45 GMT

The Giotto Rendez-Vous with Comet Halley – Twenty Years Ago

ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

Replay 1: 10 March, 16:00-16:15 GMT

Replay 2: 11 March, 11:45-12:00 GMT

ESA wrote space history, on 13/14 March 1986, when its space probe Giotto passed by Comet Halley at a distance of just 600 kilometres, taking spectacular images of the comet’s nucleus and successfully completing Europe’s first deep space mission.

Today’s Exchange provides an account of this event, without which Europe would probably not be the major player in planetary exploration it has become since.

The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS450008.pdf

Preview clips are online under http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mp4/giott20y_08032006_mpg4.mov (Quicktime, 34 MB) and http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/giott20y_08032006_wmplow.wmv (Media Player, 3.2 MB)

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/esaSC/120392_index_0_m.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.