stickeylabel Posted July 26, 2005 Posted July 26, 2005 If anyone is interested, NASA TV is currently showing the LIVE Space Shuttle Launch on the internet at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html. Then click on the "Watch NASA TV live with RealPlayer" on the Akamai list. It requires Real Player to view. There is currently only an one hour left to the launch. Stickeylabel,
Timmy Downawell Posted July 26, 2005 Posted July 26, 2005 I don't know about QLD or elsewhere, but Seven Sydney has coverage scheduled to start at midnight AEST, which will probably look better than the webstream. Oh, and an ep of Scrubs at 11.30, apparently.
anthonysimilion Posted July 26, 2005 Posted July 26, 2005 It's at 10:30pm WST here in Perth on Seven. No Scrubs here though, Boston Legal at 11pm. If you look at the NASA TV website, it says they're broadcasting it in HD on HDNet in the US.
Timmy Downawell Posted July 26, 2005 Posted July 26, 2005 Yeah, when it comes to Scrubs on Seven "believe it when you see it".
Santa1503559644 Posted July 27, 2005 Posted July 27, 2005 Seven's coverage illustrated the crap that the CNN-style services place on the screen - all the graphics made watching the pre-flight ops next to worthless! And then after ascent Seven decided to go to the local reporter for a complete waste of time re-hashing what had just been seen, plus a few platitudes! Followed by the wind-up! However, the new camera-shots from the fuel tank were pretty nice... that's one fast machine! (Though the initial full weight part of the ascent is slower that a climbing jet - yet still gives that great view of the scenery shrinking at a beautiful rate - once its gone through the sound barrier it really gets a move on!)
Santa1503559644 Posted July 27, 2005 Posted July 27, 2005 Now I've found out that Nine dumped one of the better shows around (The Associates) to cover this event (and not in the slightest bit "live" by the time it was shown in Perth). I had at first thought "Whoa! Santa's been very smart in his usual overestimation of programme delay", as the coverage finished exactly 1 hour before the end of my recording ... but, rather than carrying on with the schedule, up came that hard boiled private detective/faceless communist party bureaucrat Daaaaavid Letter-mannnnn. I assume Nine will simply show this week's Associates next week. Nine's feed, btw, was vastly superior to that of Seven... and the info graphic was actually useful (speed, throttle %, alt, etc). I say again ... boy, that baby can go! Interesting to note that significant throttle-down was required prior to jettissoning the main tank, to keep below 3G as the fuel load became minimal!!!
laurie Posted July 27, 2005 Posted July 27, 2005 I think they may have to change a few more tiles!! something flew off after launch cheers laurie
Tweet Posted July 27, 2005 Posted July 27, 2005 Its jolly hard to get glue to dry in space so I guess they'll have to use double sided tape to stick 'em on . C.M
zorg1503559539 Posted July 27, 2005 Posted July 27, 2005 there are some HD feeds of the shuttle launch kikcing around on the net, I'll see if I can find the links.
anthonysimilion Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 Wow - if there are some free clips of STS-114, I'd love to see them!
DavoNogo Posted July 29, 2005 Posted July 29, 2005 i *think* these are some screen caps from this specific launch: http://www.highdefforum.com/showthread.php?t=10299
cyril Posted August 1, 2005 Posted August 1, 2005 Does Foxtel do NASA TV, dont think so, but over here TVNZ bless there little cotton socks has been running NASATV for sometime on one of their FTA satellite mux's on Optus B1. Sorry but it is only on the NZ spot beam, you'd need a good 5meter dish to see if from Aus. The 24hr output from NASA of the shuttle mission is amazing. Cyril
anthonysimilion Posted August 4, 2005 Posted August 4, 2005 Foxtel should do NASA TV! I'd definitely be watching that a lot, and it wouldn't cost Foxtel much at all to relay the signal.
stickeylabel Posted August 8, 2005 Author Posted August 8, 2005 Does anyone know if Channel 7 will be showing the shuttle landing tonight?
mooseau Posted August 8, 2005 Posted August 8, 2005 both ch 7 and 9 are showing the landing whenever it happens
Tweet Posted August 8, 2005 Posted August 8, 2005 We can only pray a safe journey home for them tomorrow,any other thought is too terrible to contemplate. May God keep them safe. Amen. C.M
stickeylabel Posted August 9, 2005 Author Posted August 9, 2005 The space shuttle should land at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, at 10:12pm AEST. You can currently view the shuttle landing at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html. Does anyone know if the shuttle landing will shown live on TV?
Santa1503559644 Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 The space shuttle should land at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, at 10:12pm AEST.You can currently view the shuttle landing at http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html. Does anyone know if the shuttle landing will shown live on TV? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Various stations may well try to, but given their usual incompetence you might get live coverage in the East, and us in the West will get "live" coverage two hours later. Or they may just put it on the late news... depends on whether Big Arse or Desparate Vacuums or whatever is on...
anthonysimilion Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 Seven here in Perth has been very good with live coverage - Nine's effort here in Perth has been simply non-existent.
zei20l Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 the shuttle just landed, it was quite uneventful. i was hoping to see it come in through the atmosphere! ch7 showed the final 5000feet of landing. im happy they got back well
pneu Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 I too wanted to see it glowing through the atmosphere. Maybe they were afraid of televising the shuttle live in case it burnt up which would make them look bad.
stickeylabel Posted August 9, 2005 Author Posted August 9, 2005 It's great that the shuttle landed safely. Also it would have been good if Seven, Nine or SBS got a widescreen feed instead of that poor quality 4:3 feed.
Darklord Posted August 10, 2005 Posted August 10, 2005 It's great that the shuttle landed safely.Also it would have been good if Seven, Nine or SBS got a widescreen feed instead of that poor quality 4:3 feed. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That feed came directly from 4x3 NASATV vie satellite (was watching the same footage on NASA TV on the net) so you can't really blame them for that one! On a related topic for those that want to see the HDNet coverage of Discovery's launch in HD (720p) you can download a compressed WMV version from here -> http://onefeed.net/hd/other_main.html Unfortunately it’s way over compressed, so there is lots of colour banding and motion artefacts, but it still looks pretty good.
Santa1503559644 Posted August 10, 2005 Posted August 10, 2005 Seven here in Perth has been very good with live coverage - Nine's effort here in Perth has been simply non-existent. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nine chose to screen whatever trash was on during the launch, and gave us the "ES salute", putting "live" coverage on 2 hours later. However, the Nine coverage was far superior to that of Seven. When it came to the landing, all stations took the "lets minimize disruption to our lineup" approach, and chose not to cover the part of the re-entry that actually mattered. Seven and Nine both switched at the last minute to show the non-event touchdown. SBS may have had great coverage (dunno), but in the West it was a lame two hours late. The ABC just slept and put it into the newsbreak. Ten crapped on with Big Shitehead or whatever... Will see what Nine's later coverage was, when I examine my recording of (I hope) the Associates.
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