Main Press and Communication activities for 2001

In 2001 ESA is scheduled to be involved in a series of international events. These are the major ones that can be already pencilled in your agenda.

January_____________________________________________________________________

15/01 : Paris, France- ESA Head Office: ESA Director General Antonio Rodotà meets the press

18/01(tbc) : Cape Canaveral, Florida: Launch of Space Shuttle mission STS-98, launch of Destiny module for the International Space Station

tbc : Kourou, French Guiana – Europe’s Spaceport: Ariane 4 launch (Flight 137).

Payload : Eurasiasat 1

February____________________________________________________________________

01/02 : ESTEC Noordwijk, the Netherlands: Envisat press day

01/02 (tbc) : ESA HQ, Paris, France: Cluster press conference; first scientific results

01-02/02 : ESRIN, Frascati, Italy : European Parliamentary & Industrial Space Conference

06/02 : Kourou, French Guiana – Europe’s Spaceport: Ariane 4 launch (Flight 139). Payload: SICRAL and SKYNET 4F

tbc : Rome, Italy: EGNOS Multiuser Conference

27/02-01/03 : ESRIN, Frascati, Italy: A European Perspective on Disaster Management

(conference)

March_______________________________________________________________________

02/03 : Kourou, French Guiana – Europe’s Spaceport: Ariane 5 launch (Flight 140). Payload: EUROBIRD and BSAT 2A

08-10/03 : 1^st Convention of Lunar Explorers, Paris, France

12/03 : ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands: 35^th ESLAB symposium; Exo- & Astrobiology

13/03 : ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands: press event on Technology Transfer

19-21/03 : ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany: Space Debris Conference

tbc : EGNOS demonstration with German, Austrian and Swiss Alpine Clubs

April________________________________________________________________________

11-13/04 : Moscow, Russia: International Space Forum; the 40^th anniversary of the first manned spaceflight

19/04 (tbc) : Cape Canaveral, Florida: Launch of Space Shuttle mission STS-100 to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni (I) on board

23-28/04 : Hanover, Germany: Hanover Fair, ESA stand on Technology Transfer Programme

tbc : Kourou, French Guiana – Europe’s Spaceport: Artemis launch on Ariane 5

May_______________________________________________________________________________________

08-11/05 : Seville, Spain: GNSS 2001 Workshop

10-11/05 : ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands: Industry Space Days

tbc : Bordeaux, France: 30^th Parabolic Flight Campaign

tbc : France and United Kingdom: Mars Express industry press briefings

tbc : ESRIN, Frascati, Italy: European Science Week: open day at various Italian scientific institutes

June _____________________________________________________________________________

05-07/06 : Berlin, Germany: ISS Forum 2001; Global International Space Station Utilisation Conference

11/06 : Palermo, Italy: Conference on asteroids

17-23/06 : Le Bourget, France: Paris Air Show, Joint ESA/CNES pavilion

20-23/06 : Bilbao, Spain: Information for Transport System Congress

July_________________________________________________________________________

16-27/07 : Bordeaux, France: 4^th Student Parabolic Flight Campaign

tbc : Kourou, French Guiana: Envisat launch (Ariane 5)

August______________________________________________________________________

tbc : Cape Canaveral, Florida: STS-107, Space Shuttle mission with European microgravity facilities on board

September ___________________________________________________________________

October _________________________________________________________________________________

01-05/10 : Toulouse, France: International Astronautical Federation Congress (IAF). Including participation of ESA’s student outreach programme

20/10 : Arrival of NASA’s Mars 2001 mission

tbc : Baikonur, Kazakstan: Soyuz mission to the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Claudie André-Deshays (F) on board

25/10-01/11 : Düsseldorf, Germany: K2001 (the world’s largest fair for plastics and rubber):

“Plastics in space technology and their spin-offs”

26-29/10 : Granada, Spain: Earth Explorer Workshop

tbc : Bordeaux, France: 31^st Parabolic Flight Campaign

tbc : Uccle, Belgium: European Science Week – open days at various Belgian scientific institutes

November___________________________________________________________________

11-17/11 : CERN, Geneva, Switzerland: “Life in the Universe” (joint ESA/CERN/ESO activity for youngsters in the context of the EU Week for Science and Technology)

14/15 tbc : Edinburgh, United Kingdom: ESA Council meeting at ministerial level

tbc : New Norcia, Australia : Inauguration of the Deep Space Antenna ground station

tbc : Cape Canaveral, Florida: Space Shuttle mission SM3B, Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission

18-22/11 : Australia: “Alpha Centauri”, solar-powered car race for university students

December____________________________________________________________________

Dates of certain events, especially those 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; definite dates will be confirmed by Arianespace.

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