N° 1–1999: ESA's public relations activities in 1999.
4 January 1999
This year will see ESA playing a major role in a series of public relations activities both in Europe and elsewhere. The following events and rendezvous can be pencilled in for 1999.
January
12/01 Paris, France. ESA Head Office : Press breakfast with Director General.
11-22/01 STS-95 crew trip : Press conferences in Spain (11-15/01) and at ESA ESRIN (18/01), EAC (19/01), HQ (20/01), ESTEC (22/01). Dates and places to be confirmed.
February
03/02 Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V 116).
17/02 Bordeaux, France. Aerospatiale/Bordeaux: "ARD back in Europe" media event.
22/02 Baikonur, Kazakhstan. ESA astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigneré lifts off on CNES Perseus mission to Mir where he will spend 99 days.
22/02 Frascati, Italy. ESA/ESRIN: Media day.
t.b.d. Darmstadt, Germany. ESA/ESOC: Press briefing on XMM and ground segment.
March
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V117).
19-23/03 Frascati, Italy. ESA/ESRIN: IAF Space and Education Seminar.
April
09/04 Frascati, Italy. ESA/ESRIN: Inauguration of Envisat building. Press event.
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-5 launch (A 504/ V118).
27-29/04 Singapore: Oceanology International Congress.
May
01/05 All ESA establishments. Open day : "Europe for Space".
11-12/05 Brussels, Belgium. Council Meeting at Ministerial Level
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V119).
13/05 Florida, USA. Kennedy Space Center :ISS assembly - STS-96 (logistics and resupply flight).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V120).
June
13-20/06 Paris, France. Le Bourget : Paris Air Show '99. Joint ESA/CNES/Arianespace space pavilion.
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V121).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-5 launch (A 505/V122).
July
2-11/07 Paris, France. Palais des Expositions: Philex '99 (philatelic exhibition with ESA event.
mid-July Baikonur, Kazakhstan. ISS assembly: Launch of Service Module on a Proton launcher with ESA's Data Management System for Russia.
19-23/07 Vienna, Austria. Unispace III, Conference and Exhibition.
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V123).
August
11/08 Solar eclipse. t.b.d. Florida, USA. Kennedy Space Center : ISS assembly - STS-101 Spacehab (logistics and resupply for ISS).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V124).
September
20-23/09 Bialystok, Poland. 35th Congress of Polish Physicists, ESA exhibit.
22-24/09 Albacete, Spain. Spanish National Congress - Remote Sensing. ESA exhibit.
27/09 Florida, USA. Kennedy Space Center : STS-99 (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission with ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele on board).
t.b.c. Rome, Italy. 4th International Congress on Energy, Environment and Technological Innovation.
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V125).
October
t.b.d. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. ESA/ESTEC : Envisat press day (flight unit in test centre).
till April 2000 Geneva, Switzerland. Palexpo : La Lune et l'espace (The Moon and space); general public exhibition.
4-8/10 Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 50th IAF congress.
5-8/10 Genoa, Italy. Palazzo Ducale :International Symposium GNSS'99.
11-13/10 Darmstadt, Germany. ESA/ESOC: IADC conference on Space Debris.
10-17/10 Geneva, Switzerland. Telecom '99: Exhibition.
t.b.d. Florida, USA. Kennedy Space Center : ISS assembly - STS-92 (Integrated Truss Structure, Ku- band communication system, Shuttle docking port).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V126).
November
t.b.d. Noordwijk, the Netherlands. ESA/ESTEC: Artemis day (flight unit in test centre).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-5 launch (A 506/V127).
18/11 Leonid meteor shower.
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V128).
December
t.b.d. Florida, USA. Kennedy Space Center : ISS assembly - STS-97 (Solar arrays/radiators, S-band communications system).
t.b.d. Kourou, French Guiana. Europe's Spaceport : Ariane-4 launch (V129).
Dates of certain events, especially those related to launches, depend on various parameters such as readiness of spacecraft and launcher, and thus remain t.b.d. (to be determined) for some time. All Ariane launch dates will be confirmed by Arianespace.