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05 September 2008 On 10 September ESA's satellite GOCE will be launched from Plesetsk, Russia to study gravity

Title	On 10 September ESA's satellite GOCE will be launched from Plesetsk, Russia to study gravity
Type Of Media	Digital video
Production Type	Edited video
Production Category	Edited production
Length (HH:MM:SS)	0:0:0

Description

The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
08-Sep-08 08:40 - 09:00 GMT
GOCE launch: Why gravity matters ?
ESA TV Exchanges

Background information on the transmission:

On 10 September ESA's satellite GOCE will be launched from Plesetsk, Russia to study gravity.

Gravity is the force that literally keeps our feet on the ground. Whether we are walking, sitting, standing or flying it is gravity that hold us in place. To help us better understand this invisible phenomenon, ESA is launching a satellite solely dedicated to measuring gravity. GOCE will take millions of measurements of the earths gravity field and provide a global gravity field map of unprecedented accuracy. The Launch of GÓCE is the realization of an idea that has been in development for a long time.

For more info on this subject please check the shotlist that is online as a PDF file under :http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS58777.pdf

A WMV preview clip is online under :http://esa.contentcoders.com/mphi/why_gravity_MPEG2_09-08-08_wmplow.wmv

The same set of files will also be available on the
e-vision ftp.

This ESA TV Exchanges feed is transmitted by the European Commission's "Europe by Satellite" (EbS) service. You can find the complete transmission schedule, download scripts and shot lists, also for ESA TV stories, 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/SPECIALS/GOCE/index.html.

Transmission details:
Change of transponder for Europe by Satellite !

New technical details as of 15/8 :
Reception Parameters for 4.8E
Satellite Sirius 4
Transponder B28
Centre Frequency 12245.340 MHz
Polarisation Offset 0 degrees
Polarisation State Vertical
FEC Rate 3/4*188/204
Symbolrate 27.5 Megasymbols/s

Replay 1 : September 8 :
15.00 - 15.15 GMT

This programme is also available in broadcast quality via ftp-transfer, from ftp://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/why_gravity_MPEG2_09-08-08_mpeg2ps.mpg - please use your userid auto_broadcast@alphagalileo.org and password pizswx9s for fetching the file from the ESA TV server. Please note that to download the file an FTP client application is required. You will find the most popular ones at http://television.esa.int

For the latest transmission schedule, go to http://television.esa.int. For all enquires on transmissions, contact ingrid.van.de.vyver@esa.int or call her mobile phone +32 495 209541. For ordering video tapes and questions on footage via ftp-transfer, contact television@esa.int.

With kind regards

ESA TV Service

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http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/GOCE/index.html.

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