TERRITORIO E VITA DALLO SPAZIO
A cura di ENZO LO SCALZO [ loscalzo.web@asa-press.com ]


Gli appuntamenti ESA per il 2007

Di seguito le date degli avvenimenti più importanti per la stampa da inserire nelle vostre agende. Mi permetto di marcare con due ** gli eventi più interessanti per la filiera di ASA

January - Gennaio
8-9 "European Exploration workshop", Edinburgh, United Kingdom (no media attendance).
10 Press conference in London on the outcome of the Edinburgh workshop.
** 17 ESA Director General meets the press at ESA Headquarters, Paris, France
18 Thomas Reiter returns to Europe: press conference at ESA/EAC in Cologne, Germany.
23 International Space Station Heads of Agencies meeting, ESA Headquarters, Paris, France.

February - Febbraio
** 1 tbc Planck media event with Alcatel, in Cannes, France.
25 Rosetta flyby of planet Mars: media event at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
tbd Eurobot 'wet model' testing in Neutral Buoyancy Facility at ESA/EAC, Cologne, Germany.
tbd Vega’s Zefiro-9 test-firing, Salto di Quirra, Sardinia, Italy.
** tbd ATV Control Centre inauguration and media day, Toulouse, France.

March - Marzo
tbd Christer Fuglesang’s post-flight tour of Nordic countries.
** tbd 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaties of Rome: exhibition on ESA and Space.
** tbd Open day at ESA/ESRIN, Frascati (Rome), Italy.

April - Aprile
2/4-26/8Envisat exhibition at the Palais de la Découverte, Paris, France.
11 tbc Venus Express results press conference, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
16-17 Telecommunication Information Days at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
** 17-30 GMES Conference and Exhibit in the framework of Germany’s EU Presidency, Munich, Germany.
23-27 Envisat Symposium 2007, Montreux, Switzerland. ESA exhibition stand.
tbd "From Galileo Galilei to the European Satellite Navigation System": exhibition in Rome, Italy.
tbd ESA astronaut training in ATV mockup, ESA/EAC, Cologne, Germany. Media day.
tbd Thomas Reiter’s post-flight tour (Germany, France, Italy).

May - Maggio
20-24 16th IAA "Human in Space" Symposium, Beijing, China.
** 22 3rd ESA/EC joint Space Council meeting in Brussels, Belgium (highlight: endorsement of the European Space Policy).
tbd ATV media day, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
tbd GOCE Media Day, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
tbd Herschel media event with EADS Astrium, in Friedrichschafen, Germany.

June - Giugno
tbd Vega’s Zefiro-23 engine test-firing, Salto di Quirra, Sardinia, Italy.
4-8 Cassini-Huygens Project Science Group meeting in Athens, Greece.
** 6-15 50th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria: ESA exhibition.
18-24 Paris Airshow, Le Bourget, France. ESA exhibition. A public event "Night of Exploration" will take place in Paris during the Airshow.

July - Luglio
7 Night of Exploration at La Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse, France.
23-27 International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARS), Barcelona, Spain.
net 25 Launch of ATV-1 (Jules Verne), Kourou, French Guiana.
tbd Inauguration of new ESA/ESAC building in Villafranca (Madrid), Spain.

August - Agosto
End MAKS-2007, International Aerospace Show at Zhukovsky, near Moscow.

September - Settembre
** net 7 Launch of Shuttle mission STS-120 with ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and delivery of Italian-built Node 2, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
8 40 years of ESA/ESOC, event tbc at ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany.
** 14 tbc Launch of Foton-M3 satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome with 17 ESA experiments onboard.
24-28 58th IAC Congress, Hyderabad, India.
tbd ESA/EAC Open Day, Cologne, Germany.
** tbd "European Researchers' Night" at ESA/ESRIN, public event.
** tbd "EGNOS opens service", event in Brussels, Belgium, with the EC and the Galileo Supervisory Authority.
tbd Vega’s P80 engine test-firing, Kourou, French Guiana.
** tbd Galileo Media Day at ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, with Giove B in test centre.

October - Ottobre
** 2-4 Scientific and Fundamental Aspects of the Galileo Programme, Conference, Toulouse
4/10-Mar08 "100 years of Space", exhibition at La Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse, France with ESA participation.
** net 17 Launch of STS-122 delivering European Columbus module to ISS with ESA astronaut Hans Schlegel.
tbd Launch of SMOS and Proba-2, Plesetsk, Russia.
tbd International Exploration Conference, Berlin.
tbd Opening of new ESA/ESTEC building, guest and media event.
** tbd Paolo Nespoli’s post-flight tour (media activities in Italy and Germany).

November -Novembre
13 Rosetta flyby of the Earth.
15-19 ESA/EC GMES exhibit at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland.
tbd ESA/ESAC Open Day in Villafranca (Madrid), Spain.
tbd Launch of 2nd Galileo test satellite, Giove-B, Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
tbd Open Day during Science Week at ESA/ESAC, Villafranca (Madrid), Spain.

December - Dicembre
tbd Herschel/Planck Media Days, ESA/ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
tbd Launch of GOCE, Plesetsk, Russia.

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