“Earlier today, working through our KSC security office, we were contacted by the FBI who asked us to review the tape,” said Armando Oliu, Final Inspection Team lead for the shuttle program overseeing the image lab. “We immediately began to review the video upon its arrival and will continue to review it until we feel there is nothing new to learn.”
The lab is using an advanced SGI® TP9500 data management system to review the tape. This is the new $3.2 million system KSC installed in preparation for Return to Flight of the Space Shuttle fleet. The system allows NASA engineers to perform preliminary video analysis within hours of a shuttle launch and provide more detailed film analysis the day after launch. NASA, United Space Alliance (USA) and Silicon Graphics, Inc. teamed to create one of the world’s highest performing visual film analysis systems.
With the new system, NASA’s Ice/Debris Team can analyze full-frame, real-time, standard-definition and high-definition video at 1280x720 pixels and can analyze 16 mm and 35 mm film data at 4096x3112 pixels. The system was designed to process 150,000 frames of film and 300,000 frames of video within two weeks of a launch.
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