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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #560 on: 11/23/2009 11:11 am »
Can anyone viewing these HD highlights estimate the fraction of video that shows views of the earth?  My guess is about 1%.  To me the only reason for taking an HD camera up there is to show earth views. 

If you want earth views, download the Earth Day HD items.  Earth in HD as recorded by astronauts for NASA's annual HD transmission.

I like these Shuttle/ISS HD clips for the high resolution looks at the hardware and station segments and astronauts.  I've seen enough earth views on TV to fulfill me - I just need to get into space to see that in person.   

Back to TV, I can't get enough hardware/tech stuff!





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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #561 on: 11/23/2009 11:14 am »
STS-129 FD7 HD highlights.   A fun package today!  One of the first or very rare HD footage of inside a Soyuz, a tour of the ISS from end to end, and footage of celebrating the birth of a child!

about 420MB, H264 format.

http://www.filefront.com/14979801/sts129-fd7-hd.mp4


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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #562 on: 11/23/2009 11:19 am »

FD6 HD crew choice downlink was approx 12 min in length - as shown on live NASA TV before crew sleep.

ok, I'll keep my eyes open and see if I can find a refeed later this mission when the HD channel goes to airing earlier HD packages in random order instead of a slate.


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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #563 on: 11/23/2009 04:17 pm »
The file you posted is indeed a portion of the FD 6 HD downlink - 4 of the 12 mins.

Thanks again for your work in giving many of us access to HD stuff we'd never get to see otherwise.



FD6 HD crew choice downlink was approx 12 min in length - as shown on live NASA TV before crew sleep.

ok, I'll keep my eyes open and see if I can find a refeed later this mission when the HD channel goes to airing earlier HD packages in random order instead of a slate.



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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #564 on: 11/24/2009 11:45 am »
STS-129 FD8 HD Highlights

H.264 format, about 290MB in size

http://www.filefront.com/14986741/sts129-fd8-hd.mp4

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #565 on: 11/25/2009 03:03 pm »

STS-129 FD 9 HD highlights.

H264 format, about 572MB in size

http://www.filefront.com/14994837/sts129-fd9-hd.mp4/


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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #566 on: 11/26/2009 09:23 am »

STS-129 FD 10 HD Highlights - undocking and Thanksgiving message.

H264 format, about 314 mb in size.

http://www.filefront.com/15000607/sts129-fd10-hd.mp4

Happy Thanksgiving!






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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #567 on: 11/29/2009 03:51 am »
There were no FD 11 HD highlights.  Hopefuly before the shuttle retires, we get to see the RCS hotfire and other end of mission checkout activities in HD.

STS-129 Landing in HD.  H264 format.

http://www.filefront.com/15013261/sts129-landing-hd.mp4/

STS-129 Landing Engineering in HD - H264 format.  Only a partial package but still quite a bit of the camera views including the heads-up display view.  NASA TV apparently started very late after landing in airing these and my timer recording wasn't long enough to get it all.  I'll lengthen my recording for the future missions to account for the landing replays not concluding within an hour after landing.

http://www.filefront.com/15017567/sts129-landing-replays-hd-partial.mp4.001/

http://www.filefront.com/15018009/sts129-landing-replays-hd-partial.mp4.002/

My second landing try timer recording happened to capture the astronauts doing their traidional walkaround/inspection of the shuttle so I decided to encode it and make it available.  H264 HD format:

http://www.filefront.com/15014709/sts129-postlanding-astronaut-walkaround.mp4/

This concludes STS-129 HD material coverage unless a mysterious Flight Day 6 package refeed happens or someone has a raw feed for me to process and upload.

HD feed is gone as I type this, btw.  I'm surprised they didn't run flight day HD highlights for a day before taking it down.





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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #568 on: 12/02/2009 03:18 pm »
Back in town.  For the record, my logging only goes back to midday Sunday the 29th, and by then the HD service had dropped.  Oh, I see above that rsmath reported it down by the night of the 28th.

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #569 on: 12/02/2009 03:23 pm »
Can anyone viewing these HD highlights estimate the fraction of video that shows views of the earth?  My guess is about 1%.  To me the only reason for taking an HD camera up there is to show earth views.  For all I know we could be looking at pictures of a nuclear submarine crew.   
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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #570 on: 12/03/2009 07:09 pm »
Someone who works for NASA has informed me of an upcoming satellite change.

AMC-6 is having solar array issues so NASA Television (and the HD service in that digital signal) are moving to AMC-3 C-band - 87 degrees West longitude, transponder 15H on or around the weekend of January 16, 2010.

As far as I know, the AMC-7 NASA TV service is staying as-is.

The move not only means moving from AMC-6 at 72 deg W to AMC-3 at 87 deg W, but also changing polarity from AMC-6's V polarity to AMC-3's H polarity.

If you have any questions (dish-related), you can PM me and I'll see if I can answer them.  I don't work for NASA so I can't speak as how NASA decided where to go but the move was necessitated by AMC-6's issues that could worsen and lead to a sudden satellite failure.










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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #571 on: 12/17/2009 12:33 am »
There used to be a thread dedicated to NASA HDTV but that seems to have disappeared, so I'll start a new one for this.

First - if you go to http://nasa.gov/ntv you will now see a "schedule" button on the left side which lists all the channels at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision#p/a/u/1/LEcvTuSih2A

And for those who use thir own dish --

NASA Television Moving to AMC 3 Satellite Jan. 16, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/user/NASAtelevision#p/a/u/0/NSG21JmpeqQ

NASA Television is moving to satellite AMC 3.
The transition will take place January 16, 2010.
Cable and satellite providers will access NASA TV on AMC 3 Transponder 15C.
NASA TV’s Live Interactive Media Outlet (LIMO Channel) will be available at AMC 3 Transponder 9C.

Effective Jan.16, 2010:

NASA TV (Public, Education and Media Channels) Digital Satellite C-Band Downlink for continental North America, Alaska and Hawaii:

Uplink provider = Americom
Satellite = AMC 3
Transponder = 15 C
87 Degrees West
Transmission Format = DVB-S, 4:2:0
Downlink Frequency: 4000 Mhz
Downlink Polarity: Horizontal
FEC = 3/4
Data Rate = 38.860 MHz
Symbol Rate = 28.1115

"Public Channel" Programming:
SD Program = 101 (HQ1)
Video PID = 111
MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 114
AC-3 PID = 115

"Education Channel" Programming:
SD Program = 102 (HQ2)
Video PID = 121
MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 124
AC-3 Audio PID = 125

"Media Channel" Programming:
SD Program = 103 (HQ3)
Video PID = 1031
MPEG I Layer II Audio PID = 1034
AC-3 Audio PID = 1035

NASA TV Occasional HD Programming:
HD Program = 105
Video PID = 82
MPEG-1 Layer II Audio PID =83
AC-3 Audio PID = 238

Effective Jan.16, 2010:

NASA TV (Live Interactive Media Outlet – LIMO Channel) Digital Satellite C-Band Downlink for continental North America, Alaska and Hawaii:

Uplink provider = Americom
Satellite = AMC 3
Transponder = 9 C
Orbital Position = 87 Degrees West
Transmission Format = DVB-S, 4:2:0
Downlink Frequency: 3865.5 Mhz
Downlink Polarity: Horizontal
FEC = 3/4
Data Rate = 6.0 Mbps
Symbol rate = 4.3404 Msps

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #572 on: 12/17/2009 07:16 pm »
There used to be a thread dedicated to NASA HDTV but that seems to have disappeared, so I'll start a new one for this.

First - if you go to http://nasa.gov/ntv you will now see a "schedule" button on the left side which lists all the channels at the same time.


Someone for whatever reason moved the NASA thread into the "Live NASA TV/Camera Audio/Video Links" thread.

Second, the revised "schedule" is missing the HD channel so you have to continue to find out HD events in other ways.


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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #573 on: 12/28/2009 04:36 pm »
NASA Television is moving to AMC-3 C-band - 87 degrees West longitude, transponder 15H on or around the weekend of January 16, 2010.

FYI, this is going to be a hot switch.  There will be no period of overlap so you can't schedule your rework effort :(
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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #574 on: 12/29/2009 10:55 am »
FYI, this is going to be a hot switch.  There will be no period of overlap so you can't schedule your rework effort :(

schedule my rework effort??? not sure what you mean by that.

I'm all set - both my c-band dishes are fully steerable across the north american arc so all I have to do is change the frequency/symbol rate of my batch recording files so that my computer sat tuner will tune the correct frequency/symbol rate when the event launches.

Increasing the symbol rate of the signal is a good thing, IMHO.  I think it means 24/7 NASA HD is on the horizon since they are getting extra bandwidth in the signal with the symbol rate change.




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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #575 on: 01/08/2010 11:42 pm »
Actually, this change sounds like it will be more noticeable throughout the year, as noted in the advisory file:
ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/tv-advisory/nasa-tv.txt

"News networks, their reporters, and other broadcast media organizations must tune their satellite receivers to the Media Channel to ensure reception of clean feeds for all mission coverage, news conferences, and other agency distributed news and information. News and other media organizations will no longer be able to rely on content from the Public Channel for clean feeds of mission and other agency activities."

(My emphasis.)

I've noticed that the Video File on the Public Channel is now targeting short attention spans.
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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #576 on: 01/09/2010 01:23 am »
I'm almost excited when it talks about "clean feeds for all mission coverage" -- could that mean no PAO :) !?!?

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #577 on: 01/09/2010 03:52 am »
No, it's always been the same other than the one PAO-less test.

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #578 on: 01/09/2010 01:00 pm »
So those of us who are nerds need to retune to the media channel during missions?

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Re: NASA TV HD Thread
« Reply #579 on: 01/09/2010 01:28 pm »
Unsure at this time, all we have to go on is the statement which psloss noticed.

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