SKY’S THE LIMIT FOR STORNEXT AT NASA’S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER

There are not very many imaging environments more challenging than the one that supports launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Imaging data, which include video taken at speeds of up to 1,000 frames per second, weigh in today at around 200TB per mission and must be available at multiple NASA centers as rapidly as possible.

升级性能、访问和容量

The original imaging system started with tape or photographic film that had to be rushed out of state for development and digitization.

“这需要两天的时间来处理电影并将其作为文件提供，这样美国宇航局的团队就可以分析高分辨率的慢镜头，”美国宇航局成像服务承包商Abacus技术公司的通信系统工程师杰夫•沃尔夫（Jeff Wolfe）解释说我们在肯尼迪的资产管理系统无法处理整个过程，因为它实际上更适合于文档，而不是视频和图像数据。这意味着对图像数据的访问被延迟了。”

静止图像和视频文件有多种用途。科学家用它们来评估设备、系统和程序的有效性。安全部门把它们作为监视程序的一部分。公共事务部用它们来传达该机构的使命，并向公众提供图像。

沃尔夫说：“我们收集的视频片段是一项不可替代的资产，必须加以保护和保留，同时也要提供给不同地点的广大不同用户，这使得管理任务特别具有挑战性。”。

美国宇航局had several key considerations for its new system. It had to download all data within 24 hours of a launch, and have an integrated asset management foundation. It needed to scale to support future needs, store and archive multiple copies of files, and give all users access to content. It needed compatibility with systems used in other offices, provide overall value, and be thoroughly tested prior to installation.

StorNext, IPV & Telestream Automate Workflow

该项目的一个关键合作伙伴是资深的工作流集成商StorExcel，他是NASA解决方案的设计师和供应商。

赢得RFP的解决方案xinyabo体育 作为存储基础和IPV Curator作为媒体资产管理者。StorNext Pro Studio提供端到端工作流解决方案，包括StorNext Q系列高性能磁盘和基于LTO的StorNext AEL500存档。IPV策展人提供资产管理并协调生产。

With the new solution, cameras record the launch digitally, and download content to the StorNext QXS-1200 disk. On ingest, metadata is logged into the IPV media asset manager, and two copies are created in the archive. The disk copy is accessed by users while the files are active, and as content ages it is removed from disk but remains available in the archive. Files and metadata are visible through IPV for all content, whether they are on disk or in the archive. For additional security, one tape copy is retained off-line.

“使用StorNext，视频文件可以高速进入系统。一切都得到了立即保护，因此数据是安全的，所有的资产都可以立即使用一个单一的IPV管理界面的用户，“沃尔夫说StorNext旨在让每个人都能更快地访问数据，使内容搜索和检索变得快速而简单，并减少管理时间。这是一场胜利。”

Pre-Staging Simplifies Roll-out

A key to an efficient roll-out was system pre-staging. “Quantum gave us space in their Englewood Colorado facility to set up and configure the exact system that we would be installing so that we could perform the factory acceptance testing without interrupting any of the operations at Kennedy—it really worked well for us,” Wolfe says. “Since we had good test data from the system itself, when we saw performance differences at our site, it helped us identify issues that we needed to resolve.”