MEDIA SERVICES

MEDIA CONTACTS

POLICY/PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
NASA Headquarters, Washington

Steve Cole
202-358-0918
202-657-2194 (cell)
stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov


GRACE-FO MISSION
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Alan Buis
818-354-0474
818-653-8339 (cell)
alan.buis@jpl.nasa.gov


LAUNCH VEHICLE
SpaceX, Hawthorne, California

Eva Behrend
310-363-6247
eva.behrend@spacex.com

GERMAN PARTICIPATION
GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Postdam, Germany

Josef Zens
+49 (0)331/288-1040
zens@gfz-potsdam.de



PRODUCTS AND EVENTS

News and Status Reports

NASA and the GRACE-FO team will issue periodic news releases, feature stories, media advisories and status reports on launch and mission activities and make them available online at https://nasa.gov/gracefo and https://gracefo.jpl.nasa.gov/. Media advisories in advance of the launch will include details on media accreditation, briefings, pre-launch media activities at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and NASA TV and Web coverage.

Video and Images

Video and images related to the GRACE-FO mission are available at the following websites: https://vimeo.com/266146377 and https://nasa.gov/gracefo. (See also: Appendix – Gallery).

NASA Television

NASA Television channels are digital C-band signals, carried by QPSK/DVB-S modulation on satellite Galaxy-13, transponder 11, at 127 degrees west longitude, with a downlink frequency of 3920 MHz, vertical polarization, data rate of 38.80 MHz, symbol rate of 28.0681 Mbps, and ¾ FEC. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) is needed for reception. For NASA TV information and schedules on the Web, visit https://nasa.gov/ntv.

Live NASA TV programming on NASA’s public channel is available on the web at https://nasa.gov/live. The NASA TV media channel is available live at https://ustream.tv/channel/nasa-media-channel. Archived NASA TV programming is available soon after it airs at https://youtube.com/nasatelevision and at https://images.nasa.gov/.

ADDITIONAL LIVE VIDEO STREAMS

Additional live streaming video of the launch minus 30-day (“L minus 30”) news conference at NASA Headquarters, launch minus two-day (“L minus 2”) prelaunch news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base and coverage of the launch itself on NASA TV is available at: https://youtube.com/nasajpl/live and https://ustream.tv/nasajpl2.

AUDIO

Audio of the L minus 2 pre-launch readiness and science news conference at Vandenberg Air Force Base and NASA TV launch coverage will be available on “V-circuits” that may be reached by dialing 321-867-1220, -1240, -1260 or -7135.

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