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Trevor Hawkins
M5AKA
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SSETI Express TV Programme
Trevor Hawkins M5AKA
The ESA TV Service will be broadcasting a programme on the SSETI Express
satellite, which carries an Amateur Radio Transponder, on the 1st and
2nd July.
The programme will be broadcast on the Hot-Bird satellite at 13E.
The launch programme on August 25th will be carried on the Astra 1G satellite
at 19E as well as being streamed to the internet at high and low speeds.
The following information is from the ESA TV Service:
The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be:
01-Jul-05 08:45 - 09:00 GMT
SSETI Express - European Students Build a Satellite
ESA TV Exchanges
Background information on the transmission:
Replay I: 1 July 15:00-15:15 GMT
Replay II: 2 July 10:45-11:00 GMT
In about 18 months, under the leading role of the ESA Education Department,
a 250-strong team of students have built SSETI Express, a small satellite
now due to be shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia for
a launch currently scheduled on 25 August 2005. The microsatellite is
one of the projects of the Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative
(SSETI) created by ESA in 2000.
SSETI's aim is to encourage students to learn about space through the
design, construction, launch and operation of small satellites. Its slogan
is 'Let's launch the dream!'
The collaboration between the pan-European network of students, universities
and experts involved SSETI has been carried out using modern Internet
tools.
SSETI Express measures just 60 by 60 by 70 cm, small enough to piggyback
its way to orbit on a commercial launch. It is a truly European-scale
project. For instance, its communication system is a cooperation between
Polish students and the Amateur Radio community, its propulsion system
was developed by German students from Stuttgart, and its solar panels
were assembled by French students from Toulouse, and its on-board computer,
attitude control and determination system and camera all come from Aalborg
in Denmark.
Today's Exchange was mainly recorded at Aalborg, during tests of the
ground segment, and includes soundbites by students and their Thesis advisor.
In August, ESA TV will provide live coverage of the SSETI Express launch.
The script will be online as a PDF file under
http://television.esa.int/photos/40709.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.esa.int/esaCP/SEMKINZ990E_index_0.html.
Transmission details:EUTELSAT HOT BIRD at 13ƒ 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.
With kind regards - ESA TV Service
AMSAT-UK
produce an excellent newsletter which is packed full of Amateur
Satellite information.
For more details contact the secretary
Jim Heck G3WGM
Tel: 01258 453959
Email: g3wgm@amsat.org
Website: http://www.uk.amsat.org/
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