PROBA: fruitful demonstrations / / 15-05-2012

14 May 2012 European Space Agency (ESA)

Broadcast content type: Broadcast
Broadcast starts: 15 May 2012 @ 06:30 GMT
Broadcast duration: 00:15:00

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15-May-12 06:30 - 06:45 GMT
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PROBA: fruitful demonstrations

Background information on the transmission:

Small is beautiful: this could be the motto for the PROBA satellites.

But not only are they small and cheap to produce but they have the dual function of testing technological developments as well as offering an opportunity for scientists to send more experimental and new scientific missions into space.

It's been more than ten years now since the first PROBA was launched and the concept continues with more missions ahead and more demonstrations in several domains.

This A&B roll gives the status on the PROBA results since 2001 and explain the perspectives with the new PROBA missions in preparation.

For more info on this subject please check the script that is online as a DOC file under :
http://television.esa.int/photos/EbS85240.doc

A WMV preview clip is online under :
http://esatv-movies.e-vision.nl/videos/mplo/PROBA_Aroll_TV_wmplow.wmv

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

The MPEG-2 files are on the ESA ftp server in the folder entitled :
ftp://esa.contentcoders.com/mpeg2/Proba_27012012/

Transmission details:
Eutelsat 9A at 9E, transponder 59, downlink frequency 11900.1 horizontally polarised, symbol rate 27,500 FEC 2/3.

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