to save Apollo 11 power & bandwidth a non standard B&W television signal was broadcast from the Moon
mixed with other Unified S band data at 10 Frames per Second and 320 lines scan rate, & BACKUP tapes,
of the entire data feed wer…
to save Apollo 11 power & bandwidth a non standard B&W television signal was broadcast from the Moon
mixed with other Unified S band data at 10 Frames per Second and 320 lines scan rate, & BACKUP tapes,
of the entire data feed were made of all telemetry to be used if something went wrong & were recorded ONLY
at the receiving stations , two in Australia and one in California & the direct feed was converted before use
the raw telemetry tapes from Apollo 11 was engineering data, valuable mainly in the moment it was read
and interpreted out of a jumble of voice communications, television, telemetry, command, tracking
and ranging into a single file set that would need to be filtered
The broadcasts from Apollo 11 went according to plan this was recorded onto master STANDARD! video tapes
BUT the conversion had seriously degraded the video
Years later the receiving stations packed up all the Apollo material and sent it back to NASA,
this included the Apollo 11 data tapes containing the unconverted video & data
There was no other significant data on those tapes as
it could not be handled together with the video and audio in the Unified S band signal,
and was switched off except for basic astronaut bio with heart rates etc.
in l the 1980s a world wide shortage of cheep magnetic computer tapes
caused NASA to reuse a lot of its old tapes, including the Apollo 11 "data" tapes.
as the data was unreadable & or already save in other formats ,,,
This was a non standard unconverted video signal in data form!
ALL the video was broadcast world wide nothing was lost!
NASA did NOT “lose” ANYTHING !
The tapes were NOT in a LIBRARY!
NO FILM FOOTAGE was LOST
Did someone at NASA actually say we lost over a trillion pages of data, I'm just guessing the amount, but I heard some guy once proclaim, we lost all of the data from when we went to the moon,is NASA a private corporation or do they keep everything in triplicate like the government, seems kinda fun..
