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June 24th 09, 11:34 PM
June 24, 2009
Fred Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0713
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-114
NASA TO BROADCAST LATEST SPACE STATION TOUR AND EXPERIMENT IN HDTV
WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast a high-definition tour
of
the International Space Station recorded by the Expedition 20 crew
starting at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 24. Also broadcast in HD
will be an explanation of a Canadian experiment on the station that
examines how humans perceive up and down without gravity as a
reference.
The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space
station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer
Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies
are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed
assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
A five-minute explanation by Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer
Bob
Thirsk provides an overview of the Bodies In the Space Environment,
or BISE, experiment. The experiment looks at the relative
contributions of internal and external cues that allow humans to
orient themselves in the absence of gravity. The principal
investigator for the BISE experiment is Laurence R. Harris, of York
University, North York, Ontario, Canada.
The NASA Television HD feed (Channel 105) will broadcast the items
every hour on the hour, beginning at 10 a.m. The videos also will be
broadcast in standard-definition format on the NASA Television Public
and Media Channels VideoFile beginning at 10 a.m.
NASA TV Downlink Parameters are:
Uplink provider = Americom
Satellite = AMC 6
Transponder = 17C
72 Degrees West
Transmission Format: DVB-S
Downlink Frequency: 4040 MHz
Polarity: Vertical
FEC= 3/4
Data Rate= 36.860 MHz
Symbol Rate = 26.665 Ms/s
For NASA TV HD Programming:
HD Program = 105
Video PID = 82
AC-3 Audio PID = 238
MPEG-1 Layer II Audio PID =83
For NASA TV streaming video, VideoFile, downlink and scheduling
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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Fred Brown
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-0713
Kelly Humphries
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
MEDIA ADVISORY: M09-114
NASA TO BROADCAST LATEST SPACE STATION TOUR AND EXPERIMENT IN HDTV
WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will broadcast a high-definition tour
of
the International Space Station recorded by the Expedition 20 crew
starting at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, June 24. Also broadcast in HD
will be an explanation of a Canadian experiment on the station that
examines how humans perceive up and down without gravity as a
reference.
The 20-minute tour, which documents the full 167 feet of the space
station's pressurized modules, was recorded by NASA Flight Engineer
Michael Barratt to show Mission Control how equipment and supplies
are arranged and stored, and to provide engineers with a detailed
assessment of each module-to-module hatchway.
A five-minute explanation by Canadian Space Agency Flight Engineer
Bob
Thirsk provides an overview of the Bodies In the Space Environment,
or BISE, experiment. The experiment looks at the relative
contributions of internal and external cues that allow humans to
orient themselves in the absence of gravity. The principal
investigator for the BISE experiment is Laurence R. Harris, of York
University, North York, Ontario, Canada.
The NASA Television HD feed (Channel 105) will broadcast the items
every hour on the hour, beginning at 10 a.m. The videos also will be
broadcast in standard-definition format on the NASA Television Public
and Media Channels VideoFile beginning at 10 a.m.
NASA TV Downlink Parameters are:
Uplink provider = Americom
Satellite = AMC 6
Transponder = 17C
72 Degrees West
Transmission Format: DVB-S
Downlink Frequency: 4040 MHz
Polarity: Vertical
FEC= 3/4
Data Rate= 36.860 MHz
Symbol Rate = 26.665 Ms/s
For NASA TV HD Programming:
HD Program = 105
Video PID = 82
AC-3 Audio PID = 238
MPEG-1 Layer II Audio PID =83
For NASA TV streaming video, VideoFile, downlink and scheduling
information, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
For more information about the space station, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/station
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