Media invitation: Sentinel-1C pre-launch media briefings?
22 November 2024
The third satellite of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, Sentinel-1C, is set for launch?on a Vega-C?rocket?from?Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on?3 December?2024?at 18:20 local time (22:20 CET).
Journalists are invited to learn more about the launch (known as VV25), which will coincide with the return-to-flight of Vega-C, by joining a pre-launch media briefing in English, and question-and-answer sessions in French, German, Italian and Spanish. The briefings will be held online and take place on 27 and 29 November.
ESA will also offer the opportunity to join a launch event on 3 December at its European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, where senior experts will be available for interviews on-site. Media accreditation for this opportunity will open in the last week of November.
The programme below highlights the different media activities planned ahead of launch and their respective registration process.? Please note that journalists wishing to attend several of the events mentioned below should register for each activity separately to ensure that they receive the right link/information for each event.????
Press briefing per language ?
Wednesday 27 November, 14:00-14:45 CET - French?Q&A session
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Wednesday 27 November, 15:00-16:00 CET - English briefing
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Friday 29 November, 14:00-14:45 CET - Italian?Q&A session
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Friday 29 November, 14:00-14:45 CET - Spanish Q&A session
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Friday 29 November, 15:00-15:45 CET - German?Q&A session
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Registration:?
Please express interest for any of the above events by Tuesday 26 November at 17:00 CET for the English media briefing and the French Q&A session, and by Thursday 28 November at 17:00 CET for the German, Spanish and Italian Q&A sessions by selecting and completing the relevant form at??
?https://blogs.esa.int/forms/ninja-forms/4oqw8?
ESA Web TV ?
The English pre-launch media briefing will be streamed via ESA Web TV.??
Contacts?
More information about Sentinel-1:?
Copernicus Sentinel-1
More information about the EU Space Programme
More information about Vega:??
More information about Vega-C
More information about ESA:??
www.esa.int?
Sentinel-1 https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Missions/Sentinel-1/(result_type)/images
Copernicus Image of the day
Vega-C images
Terms and conditions for using ESA images:??
www.esa.int/spaceinimages/ESA_Multimedia/Copyright_Notice_Images??
Sentinel-1 videos https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Missions/Sentinel-1/(result_type)/videos ?
Vega-C videos
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos??
https://www.esa.int/esatv/Videos_for_Professionals?
Terms and conditions for using ESA videos:??
https://www.esa.int/spaceinvideos/Terms_and_Conditions?
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