ExoMars Proton launch : Latest from Baikonur

Date: Fri, Mar 11, 2016 | 10:00 - 10:30 GMT | 11:00 - 11:30 CET

Type: ESA TV Exchange

Format: 16:9

On 14 March ExoMars 2016 will be launched on top of a Russian Proton rocket.

Lift Off is scheduled at 15h31 Baikonur / 9h31 GMT /10h31 CET

The ExoMars programme has high technological and scientific aims: it has been designed to provide Europe with the necessary technology to engage in future planetary exploration missions and it focuses on one of the outstanding open scientific questions of our time: is there life in the Universe beyond Earth?

The first mission of the ExoMars programme, scheduled to arrive at Mars next October, consists of a Trace Gas Orbiter plus an entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, known as Schiaparelli.

This B-Roll feed includes:

Images of ExoMars Launch Campaign, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, February-March 2016

Images of ExoMars Proton Roll out to Launch Pad, Baikonur, 11-03-2016

Interviews ExoMars, Baikonur, 11-03-2016:

• Giacinto GIANFIGLIO, ExoMars Deputy Project Manager, ESA in English and Italian
• Hakan SVEDHEM, ExoMars 2016 Project Scientist, ESA in English,  Swedish and Dutch
• Albert HALDEMANN, ExoMars Project Payload Manager, ESA in French
• Michael KASPER, ExoMars Product Assurance Manager, ESA in German

More information at: http://exploration.esa.int/mars/

Satellite Parameters:

Eutelsat 10A @ 10degEast
 Transponder B5 Channel C (9MHz)
D/link freq: 11144.83 MHz Polarisation X/horizontal
Signal: HD 1080i/50 MPEG4 420 clear SR: 7.200 FEC: ¾ Mod: DVBS2/8PSK
Audio mono/PIDs open

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