Venus Express – Ready for Launch / ESA TV Exchanges / 21-10-2005
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
21-Oct-05 08:30 – 08:45 GMT
Venus Express – Ready for Launch
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 21 October 15:00-15:15 GMT
Replay II: 22 October 10:45-11:00 GMT
Five days before the launch of Venus Express, this Video News Release provides a concise answer to why Europe will be studying the “shepherd’s star”. Background footage includes 3-D graphics of the spacecraft, video recordings of Venus Express at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, images of Venus from past missions, and soundbites by ESA’s planetary mission coordinator, Marcello Coradini.
The script is online as a PDF file under http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS41955.pdf
A pre-view video clip can be downloaded from http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/VEX_vnr_18102005_wmplow.wmv (Media Player, 1.8 MB)
or
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/qthi/VEX_vnr_18102005_qthigh.mov (Quicktime 5.9 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 www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/.
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.
