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April 6, 2005 – Palm Bay, FL
A contract valued at over $1.6 million dollars for analog-to-digital conversion of NASA TV was awarded to Ascent Media Systems and Technology Services by Arcata Associates performing under contract at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. As a turn-key solution, Ascent Media Systems and Technology Services is providing integration services. Harmonic’s DiviCom encoders and WEGENER store-forward technology are provided in the procurement. The contract includes the contribution and distribution portions of the NASA TV video services. Each equipped NASA Center will contribute real-time video and files through an IP Network backbone to the central-casting uplink site.
The mission of NASA TV is to support space flight operations and to inform the public on NASA’s activities and programs. Using store-forward technology, NASA will be able to create customized channels for schools, museums and other outlets for the NASA channels.
NASA TV can “push” files, such as JPEGs, PowerPoints, PDFs, MS Word files, as well as video files (mpegs) to iPumps. This allows news agencies to simply drag-and-drop multimedia files to their desktops or video servers.
Broadcast TV stations and cable head-ends can also benefit from the technology. “With a store-forward capable IRD, news operations will no longer need to monitor and record live NASA TV, they can have content pushed to them,” said Rodney Grubbs, NASA’s DTV Program Manager. WEGENER’s line of business, cable and broadcast receivers allows for authorization on encrypted signals as well as receipt of content sent in the clear in the open Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) format.
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Last Updated: April 8, 2005, 9:41 AM
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