US astronaut Catherine Coleman, KC5ZTH

Live coverage of radio hams docking with ISS

The European Space Agency (ESA) will today be providing live coverage of Radio Amateurs Catherine Coleman, KC5ZTH and Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA, docking
with the International Space Station (ISS)

Two days after the perfect launch of Catherine Coleman, KC5ZTH, and Paolo Nespoli, IZ0JPA from the European launch site at Baikonur, ESA TV will provide live coverage of docking of their Soyuz TMA capsule to the International Space Station.

Docking is scheduled to occur at 20:12 GMT on Friday, December 17. Coverage will commence at 20:00 and is expected to end at approximately 20:20.

Three hours later ESA TV will also cover hatch opening and ingress into ISS. Coverage will commence at 22:55 and is expected to end at approximately 23:30 GMT.

As soon as possible after these events, highlights will be available via the ESA TV ftp server.

More background information can be found on:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/magisstra/index.html

Eutelsat W2A @ 10degE
Transponder F5 Channel F
D/link freq: 12721.83 MHz
Pol: X horizontal
Symb rate: 5.632
FEC: 3/4
Signal: MPEG2 4:2:0 in the clear
Modulation: DVB-s QPSK

Thanks to John Tellick for posting this information to the GEO reflector at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GEO-Subscribers/

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