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mikedelaney16 · 10-24-2007, 03:06 AM

If NASA want people to know more, they might consider running NASA TV on some Ku band sats. NASA TV presently only offers C band satellite transmissions. Suburbanites like me don't usually have the required land area for the 2 meter dishes C band tends to call for. NASA TV is not available in Europe except via internet, but I suppose that's understandable given their public funding.

One Free-To-Air channel on one of the Astra 2 birds (28.2E) or Eurobird 1 (28.5E) would cover the whole of Europe and keep me happy too. Maybe they could encourage ESA and RSA (Roscosmos? RSC Energia?) to do likewise. (ESA seems to have discontinued their TV service, no big surprise).

10-24-2007, 03:06 AM	#33
mikedelaney16 Solar Max Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 201	If NASA want people to know more, they might consider running NASA TV on some Ku band sats. NASA TV presently only offers C band satellite transmissions. Suburbanites like me don't usually have the required land area for the 2 meter dishes C band tends to call for. NASA TV is not available in Europe except via internet, but I suppose that's understandable given their public funding. One Free-To-Air channel on one of the Astra 2 birds (28.2E) or Eurobird 1 (28.5E) would cover the whole of Europe and keep me happy too. Maybe they could encourage ESA and RSA (Roscosmos? RSC Energia?) to do likewise. (ESA seems to have discontinued their TV service, no big surprise). Last edited by mikedelaney16 : 10-24-2007 at 03:20 AM.