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Article: NASA to boost its Web site so it can stream Mars video
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- June 15, 2003
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Two Silicon Valley companies have been working
to boost NASA's online capabilities before January, when two unmanned
rovers are scheduled to land on the Red Planet.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration wants to be
prepared for a global online rush to www.nasa.gov when the agency for
the first time attempts to Webcast real-time streaming video from
Mars, or any celestial body for that matter.
OK, near-real time. The signal will take at least nine minutes to
reach Earth, more than 100 million miles away.
ETouch Systems of Fremont, and Speedera Networks of Santa Clara,
are key contractors in the $6 million project to help bring Mars to
Earth for Web viewers, and ...