The Mercury-Atlas-9 slow-scan TV experiment

[Harry Dalek]

Came across this
The Mercury-Atlas-9 slow-scan TV experiment
"the quality and usefulness of its transmissions were not satisfactory" ! ; (
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/radioind/Mer ... Radio.html

[Steve Anderson]

...interesting to note that this system also used 320-lines as well as the early monochrome Apollo missions of some years later. There presumably is a reason? Though the Apollo missions had a higher frame rate than the Mercury missions, 10fps as opposed to 2fps. 2fps could well be quite viewable on a P7 or similar phosphor CRT. I guess few, if any, recordings survive...NASA seem adept at 'losing', 're-using', or simply destroying historically significant records of events and data. Here's one example I may have linked to in the past...

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47john_lea ... Found.html

Also this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGwyhc4g3q4

Steve A.