NASA will launch UHD TV channel at the end of this year

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LONDON: NASA has big ambitions and it has always had, the recent one being posting UHD content on its YouTube page earlier this summer. The space agency has more as its 4K aspirations. Today, NASA announced that it’s teaming up with Harmonic to launch 4K content on NASA TV starting November 1st. The possibilities could be endless: from eating lettuce aboard the ISS, to multi-camera, slow motion footage of shuttle launches, to Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon — space exploration is about to look even cooler.
The channel will not only serve up the latest high-resolution images and video from the ISS and other NASA missions, but one can have a sneak-peek into “historical missions”.
4K resolution, also called 4K, refers to a display device or content having horizontal resolution on the order of 4,000 pixels. Several 4K resolutions exist in the fields of digital television and digital cinematography. In the movie projection industry, Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) is the dominant 4K standard.
Using an end-to-end UHD video delivery system from Harmonic, NASA Television will have the capability to deliver linear 2160p60 video content, allowing viewers to enjoy footage on a wide range of television and internet-connected devices. The new UHD channel is expected to launch on Nov. 1, following preliminary tests.
“Partnering with Harmonic gives NASA an outlet for its UHD content, which has four times the resolution of HD and is the next iteration of digital television,” said Robert Jacobs, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Office of Communications at the agency’s headquarters in Washington.
Leveraging the 8-megapixel resolution of UHD, the channel will showcase the breathtaking beauty and grandeur of space. NASA TV UHD video will be sourced from high-resolution images and video generated on the International Space Station and other current NASA missions, as well as re-mastered footage from historical missions.