[South Florida DX Association] Live broadcasts from space

[Bill Marx]

>From Another List:


HOUSTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Live broadcasts from space next week should be
visually stunning and historic, NASA said from Houston, because they'll
be broadcast in high definition. 

The two live high definition television broadcasts will feature
Expedition 14 Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria on the International Space
Station, NASA said in a news release. The broadcasts, scheduled for Nov.
15, will be carried by Discovery HD Theater and the Japanese broadcast
network NHK. 

The broadcasts are a joint effort by NASA, the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency, Discovery HD Theater and NHK, the space agency said. 

NASA officials in Houston said they've flown HDTV cameras on previous
missions but had to wait until the mission was over to retrieve and view
the tapes, then share them with scientists, engineers, the media and the
public. 

"For the first time ever, this test lets us stream live HDTV from space
so the public can experience what its like to be there," Rodney Grubbs,
NASA principal investigator, said. 

HDTV resolution is about six times that of regular analog video, Grubbs
said.

- (K4EJ)