Alexander Gerst/Exp 57 landing in Kazakhstan
Date: Wed, Dec 19, 2018 | 22:00 - 10:00 GMT | 23:00 - 11:00 CET
Type: ESA TV Live
Format: 16:9
Landing of the Expedition 57 crew (Auñón-Chancellor/Gerst/Prokopyev) on the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft is scheduled at 05:03:04 GMT, 11:03:04 Kazakhstan time on Thursday 20 December.
ESA TV will offer live coverage of all key moments of the operations starting at:
- Farewell ceremony and hatch closing 19 Dec at 2220 GMT (tx 2200-2230 GMT).
- Undocking of the Soyuz MS-09 from the Rassvet ISS module scheduled at 0140 GMT (tx 0130-0215 GMT).
- Landing coverage itself will start some 30 minutes before touch down in the steppes of Kazakhstan, scheduled at 0503 GMT, (tx 0430-0615 GMT).
- Kazakh welcome ceremony at Karaganda airport – non-live feed 1030-1100 GMT.
The German ESA astronaut will then return to the European Astronaut Centre, Cologne, for check-ups and research into how humans adapt to living in space. See ESA press release PR34-2018 of 05 December for media opportunities at Cologne airport on 20th and at EAC on 22nd.
All highlights will be posted as soon as possible on the ESA TV ftp server
Server: tvdownload.esa.int
Login: esa
Password: ftp4esa
Some Exp 56/57 mission statistics for landing on 20 Dec:
Duration - 197 days
Orbits of the Earth - 3152
Distance traveled – 133,416,139Km
7 visiting craft arrived: SpaceX-15 & 16 / Progress 70P & 71P / Cygnus NG-10 / Soyuz MS11 / HTV-7
5 visiting craft departed: SpaceX-15 / Progress 69P / Cygnus OA-9 / Soyuz MS-08 / HTV-7
Alexander Gerst will have logged 197 days in space over Exp 56/57 and totalled 362 days in space over his two flights (just exceeding Thomas Reiter’s 350)
Alexander Gerst served as ISS Crew Commander from 03 Oct – 18 Dec 2018 (2nd European to command after Frank De Winne during Exp 21, 2009)
More information at: http://alexandergerst.esa.int/
Satellite Parameters:
For pre-landing and landing:
Eutelsat 10A @ 10degEast Transponder B03 Channel A (9MHz)
D/link freq: 11042.20 MHz Polarisation X/horizontal
Signal: HD 1080i/50 MPEG4 420 clear SR: 7.200 FEC: ¾ Mod: DVBS2/8PSK
Audio 1: international
Audio 2: international
Audio mono/PIDs open
For welcome ceremony/soundbite in Karaganda:
Eutelsat 36B @ 35.9degEast Transponder F5 Channel E (9MHz)
D/link freq: 12713.33 MHz Polarisation X/horizontal
Signal: HD 1080i/50 MPEG4 420 clear SR: 7.200 FEC: ¾ Mod: DVBS2/8PSK
Audio 1: international
Audio 2: international
Audio mono/PIDs open
For any inquiries regarding satellite or ftp reception please contact the ESA TV producer:
Chris Courtenay Taylor at chrisct@worldwidepictures.tv / tel + 44 7774 275 951