N° 1–2006: Overview of ESA communication activities in 2006 relevant to the media- Status of 12 September 2006
3 January 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 2006
16/01
ESA Director General meets the press at ESA Head Office, Paris.
February 2006
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
02-04/03
“Citizens Jury on Space Exploration”, Science Museum, London.
11/03
Ariane 5 ECA launch - Kourou, French Guiana - HOTBIRD 7A/SPAINSAT
13/18
ESA/CNES conference on 15 years of progress radar Altimetry, Venice Italy.
21/03
“Nights of the astronauts”, Barcelona, Spain.
21-23/03
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.
21-31/03
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.
05/04
ERA Press Day, Dutch Space, Leiden, the Netherlands
03/04
ESA Participation at MIP-TV, Cannes, France.
11/04
Venus Express Orbit Insertion; event at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
18/04-30/04
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Conference (19/20 April) and exhibition, Graz, Austria.
May
02/05
Launch of Maxus 7 from Esrange, Kiruna, Sweden
02/05
Columbus Day at Bremen, Germany : EADS presentation of the Columbus laboratori with its experiment facilities assembled
16/05-21/05
ILA 2006 (Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrt Ausstellung) exhibition, Berlin, Germany.
27/05
Ariane 5 ECA launch - Kourou, French Guiana - SATMEX 6-THAICOM 5
28/05
Columbus delivered to KSC from EADS, Bremen, Germanmy
June
08/06-10/06
ECSITE, European Collaborative for Science and Technical Exhibitions, Annual Conference, Technolpole/ Mechelen. Belgium.
08/06-11/06
Salon Européen de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, Paris, France.
19/06-23/06
SpaceOps Conference and exhibition, Rome Italy.
July
04/07
Launch of ESA Astronaut Thomas Reiter from KSC, Florida for long-duration mission "Astolab" on STS-121/ULF-1.1 with ESA equipment.
15/07-19/07
Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF), Munich, Germany.
17/07-23/07
Farnborough International Airshow, Farnborough, United-Kingdom.
August
11/08
Ariane 5 launch - Kourou, French Guiana - JCSAT-10-SYRACUSE 3B
September
03/09
End of SMART-1 mission (spacecraft to crash on the Moon).
27/09
Opening of Spaceflight and Universe Exhibition at Landes Museum fur Technik und Arbeit, Mannheim, Germany (open till October 2006).
October
02/10 Tbc.
Ariane 5 ECA launch - Kourou, French Guiana - DIRECTV 9S-OPTUS D1
07/10
Launch of MetOp from Baikonur (Kasakhstan)
02/10-06/10
57th IAC Congress at City of Arts and Science, Valencia, Spain.
Tbc
44th ESA Parabolic Flight Campaign, Airport Bordeaux-Blagnac, France.
November
24.11 Tbc.
Launch of Corot satellite on Soyuz from Baikonur, Kazakhstan
December
14/12 Tbc.
Mission of ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang on Space Shuttle mission STS-116 to the International Space Station.
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