InterBEE REVIEW2012 (EN)

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83Transit of Venus shot in 4K and broadcast live on NASA TV in real-time“Special educational programs can also be produced” Tamegaya: “Your department is linked to the media group, NASA TV, isn’t it? How do you communicate with each other?”Grubbs: “All NASA TV producers hold a weekly conference call to tell each other about ongoing advancements. People on the technical side organize the necessary technology and infrastruc-ture based on this. For example, going back to the transit of Venus I just mentioned, my team secured the Internet environment weeks beforehand and setup the satellite time. With all systems in place, our live show was able to switch between every place.”“Content producers and technical people also communicate once a week. We can, therefore, identify major events weeks or months in advance.”“We also have special education programs that we document live such as robot and moon buggy contests.”Tamegaya: “Are you the manager of NASA’s visual group?”Grubbs: “Yes, I am. I am responsible for the technical relationship between each center of the NASA Digital Television Working Group. There is also a Web Video Working Group and previously broadcast programs are available on the Internet as a streaming video.”“Recently, a group handling static images was set up, so we now have static image, web and video contents.”“My job is to assume responsibility for the development of a mutually-supporting infrastructure, enabling general workers, scientists, and engineers to exchange contents. This is extremely important, but if there are no contents they cannot be distributed. Contents are a prerequisite.”"Proposing techniques for better products with a focus on 4K and HEVC" Tamegaya: “Do people involved with contents want to use high-quality images? Have you had any requests for new facilities to accommodate this?”Grubbs: “Sometimes. Technical people have progressed further than content-related items. For example, we are focusing on 4K and HEVC. We are looking beyond the issue of content production.”“By looking into the future, we have been able to propose techniques for good products such as better infrastruc-tural facilities and cameras. This means that content providers will follow.”“We must move forward at NASA. Official people rarely take the lead and come and say, “I want to do something like this.” Normally, we make propos-als by saying “can we do this by doing it like so”."We frequently work in partnership with Japanese manufacturers and broadcasting stations" Tamegaya: “Have you developed some new system for collaborating with Japanese industries?”Grubbs: “We often collaborate with the Japanese industry. On the subject of the 3DA1 camera that flew into space, we had discussions with Panasonic about whether we could make slightly more interesting content with 3D. We decided to make it the authorized camera for our journey into space after discussing what would happen if we took a 3D camera to the space station. This was our collaboration with Japanese companies.”“Such collaboration is extremely benefi-cial and has continued for many years. We have worked in partnership with Japanese companies carrying out technological developments including Panasonic, JAXA, NHK and Sony.”“So it is a really great opportunity for us to be able to take part in events such as Inter BEE that allow us to calculate the future.”

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