Vulcain 2 – A Bigger Engine for Ariane 5 / ESA TV Exchanges / 23-11-2004
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
23-Nov-04 10:15 – 10:30 GMT
Vulcain 2 – A Bigger Engine for Ariane 5
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 23 November 19:45-20:00 GMT
Replay II: 27 November 14:00 -14:15 GMT
The return-to-service mission for the heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA is now targeted for January 2005.
Details of Arianespace’s new launch planning were provided last week by CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall in Paris. The mission will be the first for a heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA version after the launcher’s unsuccessful maiden flight in December 2002.
Today’s programme is looking at work that has been done for improving the Vulcan 2 cryogenic engine, including a full-scale test firing filmed in Vernon in France. The Vulcan 2 engine is one of the main improvements of the Ariane 5 ECA compared to the current generic Ariane 5 launcher.
The programme includes an A-roll of six minutes (split audio – English voiceover) and a B-roll with clean international sound.
The script is on-line as a PDF document under http://television.esa.int/photos/23Nov2004.pdf
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.arianespace.com/site/news/news_sub_missionupdate_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.
