JVC Projectors Help Drive Man Into Space.

You can probably think of a hundred ways to utilize a projector; they’re used for pitching business proposals, for class presentations, they are used in churches and in bars and of course they are used to watch your favorite movies with your favorite people. But did you know that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA uses them to watch their space shuttles fly into space during launch.

If you’ve ever seen the mission control room at the Kennedy National Space Center, perhaps during a launch via Space.com’s webcam, then you’ll know that inside the control room there are a plethora of massive screens that the controllers are watching. But have you ever stopped to think that those screens are made possible by digital projectors! Perhaps the very same digital projector that Mom and Dad, er Santa, bought for Christmas.

Well, recently NASA announced that they will using JVC projectors in the control room during the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, slated for July 13th, 2005. But, they won’t be using just any old JVC projector, they will be using JVC’s super-high resolution DLA-QX1 which promises a grossitating resolution of 2048x1536. The projector lamp beams the images from the launch onto an 8-foot screen in perfect resolution.

The projector can even help NASA save lives. After the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Columbia in February of 2003, where 7 crew members lost their lives while the Shuttle was reentering the Earth’s atmosphere, NASA has found it even more important to monitor every detail of the launch process. During the mission it was noticed afterwards that a bit of the shuttles heat resistant under carriage came flying off during the launch. Perhaps the accident could have been avoided if NASA had a higher resolution image to look at when they were analyzing Columbia’s launch events.

Thankfully, since that fateful mission, projector technology has come a long way, even since 2003 and the JVC DLA-QX1 will act as a super hero for the NASA controllers this time around. The unit will definitely allow them to analyze everything in high-definition and the projector lamp inside will make sure that all the recorded images filmed during the mission will appear bright and crisp on their giant screens.

Good Luck to the Crew of the Discovery and long live projectors and projector lamps!