Overview of ESA communication activities in 2006 relevant to the media
ESA PR 01-2006. Press conferences, exhibitions, launches, and much more. Here is the list of the main communication activities ESA will be involved in this year. Pencil them in into your diaries.
| January | |
|---|---|
| 16/01 | ESA Director General meets the press at ESA Head Office, Paris |
| February | |
| 21/22 | “Au-delà du bleu du ciel”, astronaut film avant-première, Cité de l’Espace, |
| Toulouse (21/02) and ESA/EAC, Cologne (22/02) | |
| March | |
| 02/04 | “Citizens Jury on Space Exploration”, Science Museum, London |
| 13/18 | ESA/CNES conference on 15 years of progress radar Altimetry, Venice Italy |
| 21/03 | “Nights of the astronauts”, Barcelona, Spain |
| 21/23 | Oceanology International – London, UK |
| 24 | Press conference at Cosmo Caixa to announce the ESA permanent exhibit and |
| the opening of the Education office – Barcelona, Spain | |
| Tbc | Launch of Maxus 7 from Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden |
| Tbc | Columbus Day, at Bremen, Germany : EADS, presentation of the Columbus |
| laboratory with its experiment facilities assembled | |
| 21/31 | 42nd and 43rd ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, Airport Bordeaux-Blagnac, France |
| April | |
|---|---|
| 02/04-07/04 | EGU, European Geoscience Union, General Assembly 2006, Vienna, Austria |
| 03/07 | ESA Participation at MIP-TV, Cannes, France |
| 11/04 | Venus Express Orbit Insertion; event at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany |
| Tbc | Launch of 2nd Galileo In Orbit Validation Elment, GIOVE-B, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan |
| 18/04-30/04 | Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Conference (19/20 April) |
| and exhibition, Graz, Austria | |
| 27/04 | Columbus delivered to KSC from EADS, Bemen, Germany |
| May | |
| Tbc | Launch of ESA Astronaut Thomas Reiter from KSC, Florida for long-duration mission “Astrolab” |
| on STS-121/ULF-1.1, with ESA equipment | |
| 16/05-21/05 | ILA 2006 (Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrt Ausstellung) exhibition, Berlin, Germany |
| Tbc | Delivery of European Robotic Arm to Russia |
| June | |
|---|---|
| 08/06-10/06 | ECSITE, European Collaborative for Science and Technical Exhibitions, |
| Annual Conference, Technolpole/ Mechelen. Belgium | |
| 08/06-11/06 | Européen de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, Paris, France |
| 30/06 tbc | Launch of METOP satellite, from Baikonur, Kazakhstan |
| 19/06-23/06 | SpaceOps Conference and exhibition, Rome Italy |
| Tbc | European USOC Day, European-wide event to present the network of User |
| Support and Operations Centres for the International Space Station | |
| July | |
| 15/07-19/07 | Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Munich, Germany |
| 17/07-23/07 | Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, United-Kingdom |
| Tbc | Mission of ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang on Space Shuttle mission STS-116 |
| to the International Space Station (under review by NASA) | |
| August | |
| 17/08 | End of SMART-1 mission (spacecraft to crash on the Moon) |
| September | |
| 27/09 | Opening of Spaceflight and Universe Exhibition at Landesmuseum fur Technik und Arbeit, |
| Mannheim, Germany (open till October 2006) |
| October | |
|---|---|
| 02/10-06/10 | 57th IAC Congress at City of Arts and Science, Valencia, Spain |
| 20/10 | European Astronomy Day |
| Tbc | Launch of Corot satellite on Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guyana |
| Tbc | 44th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, Airport Bordeaux-Blagnac, France |
| December | |
| Tbc | Delivery of Node 3 for the ISS to NASA, KSC |
Dates of certain events, especially of launches, depend on various factors, such as readiness of the spacecraft and/or launcher, and thus remain t.b.c. (to be confirmed) for some time. All Ariane launch dates are provisional, with definite dates being confirmed by Arianespace. Soyuz launch dates are confirmed by Starsem, and Space Shuttle launches by Nasa.
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