NASA is about to launch 4K TV channel for free

NASA recently announced it will soon release a new 4K television channel that will spin everything on the International Space Station (ISS) in North America on November 1.

NASA is about to launch 4K TV channel

NASA has partnered with Harmonic, a company specializing in video distribution infrastructure to release the first 4K television channel. The US Aeronautics and Space Agency said it will be the first organization to offer a 4K definition non-commercial television channel in North America.

ISS International Space Station.

"The partnership with Harmonic will help open NASA with a door to access UHD (4K) content with four times the definition ," said Robert Jacobs, executive vice president of NASA Communications. HD, and this is the next step of digital television ".

In order to partly show the advantages of 4K television, streaming content including videos from the current mission of the ISS Space Station will also be returned completely in 4K quality.

However, whether or not users can access this NASA channel is another matter. NASA said in a discussion with channel content operators including: fiber optic cable management, satellite, cable operators that people can watch online TV channels through Internet with the condition that the bandwidth speed is at least 13Mbps or more.

If not, they need to subscribe to a television subscription with digital television service providers to view this broadcast channel of NASA.