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From: johnl@n3dmc.svr.md.us (John Limpert)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA Satellite TV Coverage
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Date: 8 Oct 90 02:14:41 GMT
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vac@sam.cs.cmu.edu (Vincent Cate) writes:
>It amazes me that with cameras in orbit they are showing what they
>are (mostly boring ground based stuff).  Are they only able to send 
>video from the shuttle during very limited portions of the orbit?

The video has to be downlinked through the ground network (GN), voice
and telemetry can be routed through the space network (SN aka TDRSS).
The video also uses the same transmitter that is used for tape recorder
dumps.  There are only two stations left in the ground network,
Merritt Island, Florida (MIL) and Bermuda (BDA).  I'm not sure how much
video support (if any) is provided by the Deep Space Network (DSN),
NOAA or DOD.

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