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I'm Lori Meggs and I'm bill hubscher

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welcome to focus on Marshall on today's

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program we're going to show you a lab

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here at Marshall that can take this and

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build this the first let's go for a ride

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and we are about 400 to head over to see

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these are some of the exciting new

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images of the space shuttle during

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launch we're here now in the imaging

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system lab with Eric quarter has been

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instrumental in developing some of those

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systems Eric tell me what you do in this

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lab well during the last 3 years our

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primary focus has been on developing

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requirements and a design to look at the

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shuttle overall vehicle during flight

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one of the primary designs that we

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worked on is the external tank camera

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which you've had views of that everyone

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is seeing and with the next upcoming

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flight we have two SRB cameras on each

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solid booster so we'll have a total of

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five cameras viewing the shoulder and

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flight primary focus is to look the

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overall health of the vehicle in

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particular we're looking at the wing

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leading edges and we're also looking at

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the bipod region do you have any

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hardware you can show us yes we do have

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an external tank camera that we can look

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at we have models of the solid rocket

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booster camera that we can view as well

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alright let's take a look we're joined

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now by Jeremy Meyers who has a table

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full of hardware is going to show us

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we're going to start with the camera

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that was instrumental in the return to

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flight effort right Jeremy that's right

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this camera here is an example of the

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camera which flew on sts-114 and this

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unit here was actually what caught the

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debris and was used by the video

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analysts to understand what happened

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post flight we as a group here have

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worked with lockheed martin and

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developing what the requirements needed

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to be also we worked with evie 12 and

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determined what the field of view would

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be they can do modeling within that

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group so by working as a team through

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with all these organizations we were

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able to have a system which actually

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ended up being imaging solution of the

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year in 2006 you've got a couple of

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other newer cameras here they're going

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to fly on the next shuttle

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as well right that's right during the

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next flight we're going to have cameras

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on the SRB and we've been working with

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USA to develop those same requirements

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to model fill the view with EV 12 and

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going through that same process and

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we're going to have a camera that's

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going to be on the aft of the SRB as

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well as the forward of the SRB looking

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at the shuttle and what about the

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housing for this one well of course we

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have to rehouse these to harden them and

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there's a process that's gone through

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that to withstand the thermal

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environments because these are on the

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outside of the vehicle now you're also

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working on cameras for the next

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generation of space vehicles what we

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have over here well we're also looking

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at developing requirements and looking

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at various camera systems which will be

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able to fly on the next vehicle leave

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you have a really small one there too

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that's right this is an example of a

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small camera that might have a possible

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solution there's also higher resolution

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cameras so there's all kinds of things

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you have to consider as far as

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requirements what's the best solution

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what will fulfill the needs for NASA in

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the future then you can get that one in

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very hard to reach places that's right

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what about these two cameras you have

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melted here well another possibility is

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to develop a stereo pair and that allows

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you to measure accurately wear something

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that you see is in space also we have

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GPS systems which is allows us to add

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Tommy and that allows you to look at

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different cameras and to link up what

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you're looking at at the same time you

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also have this black box to move from

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videotape to pure digital recording

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right this is an example of another

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project that the group here is working

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on and this flies on a sounding rocket

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but this is a video recorder and it's a

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digital video recorder so basically you

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could have camera systems coming in and

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recording that real-time Jeremy thanks

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very much let's head back over to Eric

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and Lori we're back here with Eric in

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the image characterization lab and this

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is where you actually look at the

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performance of the camera that's correct

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we take the camera that we've design we

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bring it in here we look at the distinct

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Slyke lens distortion a single noise

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ratio

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from that data we utilize that to look

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at the shuttle data that we get back

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from the external tank camera for

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instance and we can determine size of

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objects that are in the field of you and

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that gives us a nice indian system all

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right we can't wait to see the next

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images that are on the next shuttle