NASA TV broadcasts coverage of GOES-N satellite launch

Erica Hupp
Headquarters, Washington July 27, 2005
(Phone: 202/358-1237)

Cynthia M. O'Carroll
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
(Phone: 301/286-6943)

John Leslie
NOAA, Suitland, Md.
(Phone: 301/457-5005)

MEDIA ADVISORY: M05-123

NASA TV BROADCASTS COVERAGE OF GOES-N SATELLITE LAUNCH

NASA TV's Media Channel will carry Boeing's production of the
Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N) launch starting
at 6:15 p.m. EDT, Friday. The GOES-N launch window is from 6:23 to 7:01 p.m.
EDT. Liftoff is from Space Launch Complex 37, Cape Canaveral Air Force
Station, Fla.

The NASA TV Media Channel broadcasts digitally on satellite AMC 6,
Transponder 17, at 72 degrees west. Downlink frequency is 4040 MHz. Polarity
is vertical. FEC is 3 / 4. Data rate = 36.860 MHz. Symbol = 26.665 Ms.
Transmission = DVB. Program = 103. Video PID = 0x0131 = 4145 decimal; Audio
PID = 0x01034 = 4148 decimal; AC-3 PID = 0x01035 = 4149 decimal.

Boeing's coverage will also be available, in analog, beginning at 6 p.m.
EDT, Friday on satellite AMC 3, Transponder 3C, at 87 degrees west. Uplink
is 5985 MHz; polarity is vertical. Downlink is 3760 MHz; polarity is
horizontal; audio 6.2 and 6.8. For information about NASA TV on the Web,
visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

For information about the GOES-N mission and program on the Web, visit:

http://www.nasa.gov/goes-n

http://goespoes.gsfc.nasa.gov

http://www.noaa.gov/


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