Spacehab Establishs Space Media Subsidiary To Operate ISS Broadcast Studio

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Spacehab Establishes Space Media Subsidiary To Operate ISS Broadcast Studio

Spacehab has created a subsidiary, Space Media Inc. (SMI), to develop a broadcast studio on the International Space Station. Spacehab is building the commercial broadcasting studio and multimedia production facility, to be named Enterprise. The studio, a module approximately 3 m (10 ft) in diameter and 7.6 m (25 ft) in length, would dock on the Russian side of the Space Station, and be equipped for research, stowage, and television and Internet broadcasting. SpaceHab expects to finish the Enterprise module by 2002 at a cost of US$100 million, and would be launched on a Russian Proton. Space Media expects to recoup its US$100 million investment within about three years from advertising and other revenue streams, such as charges for stowage and communication. Talks are rumored to be ongoing with Paramount and Columbia studios and news providers CNN and Gannett. Space Media, which will have offices in Houston and Washington, will be responsible for creating the multimedia educational and entertainment material that will be broadcast as high-definition television and sent over the Internet. Programming would include footage from the extensive film archives that SpaceHab has obtained from Russia's Rocket Space Corporation Energia, documenting the history of the Russian space program. SpaceHab also envisions concerts performed in space and coverage of space-related news.

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April 17, 2000