May 6, 2009 Fred Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0713 fred.a.brown@xxxxxxxx MEDIA ADVISORY: 09-077 NASA TELEVISION TO PROVIDE HD COVERAGE OF SPACE SHUTTLE LAUNCH WASHINGTON -- NASA Television will provide live high definition coverage of Monday's scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. The NASA Television HD feed (Channel 105) will be available beginning Friday at 12 p.m., EDT, with live images from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch coverage begins Monday, May 11, at 8:30 a.m. Liftoff is slated for 2:01 p.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, downlink and scheduling information, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv For more information about the space shuttle's STS-125 mission, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/shuttle For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/hubble -end- To subscribe to the list, send a message to: hqnews-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To remove your address from the list, send a message to: hqnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
