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July 12, 2005

discovery launch in 14 hours

Just about 14 hours from now, the space shuttle Discovery will be lifted into the air by a pair of massive solid fuel rocket boosters. I will be at work looking for the best online feed available. I'm armed with a handfull of NASA TV feeds and looking for alternatives if those are clogged.

If you've got suggestions for live streams other than NASA TV, please let me know. Thanks.

update: launch postponed :(

Posted by asa at July 12, 2005 10:44 PM
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Hello Asa.
If you don't mind german language, this german television channel has a livestream:

http://www.n-tv.de/1179.html

Another possibility is ESA TV with a 100 % rebroadcast of NASA-TV.
Maybe not as overcrowded as NASA TV.

Posted by: Dere on July 13, 2005 12:23 AM

Yahoo is streaming the feed as well, but that might be more clogged than the NASA site, so I am not sure this helps.

Posted by: Bill Gianopoulos on July 13, 2005 03:22 AM

Possibly cnn.com. They sometimes have live streams, and their video is free now.

Posted by: flagg on July 13, 2005 07:08 AM

The yahoo feed looks pretty good to me for now...but it might get more crowded as it gets closer to launch.

Posted by: Jacob on July 13, 2005 07:10 AM

Nasa are using Akamai for some of their Real Video streams to help cope with the load. I'm currently using this Real Video link which uses Akamai which is working well.

Posted by: Adam on July 13, 2005 07:19 AM

How about sharing some of YOUR feeds with us...? :P

Posted by: Yogarine on July 13, 2005 09:18 AM

BBC News have a stream linked to from their front page, might only be UK accessiable.

Posted by: Jaime Mitchell on July 13, 2005 09:25 AM

Looks like they've called it off until tomorrow. :(

Posted by: ant on July 13, 2005 10:46 AM

no launch today. nothing to see here, move on.

Posted by: testboy on July 13, 2005 11:08 AM

If you're in Houston, TimeWarnerCable has a NASA channel which always broadcasts the launches live.

When there's nothing live which is exciting then they broadcast 24 hours a day of other NASA footage.

Posted by: Block Sheep on July 13, 2005 02:49 PM

wouldn't yahoo, or google be the best solution?

Posted by: Jack on July 13, 2005 05:19 PM

Hmm, I hope NASA is right about what they could've done to avoid the problem that delayed the liftoff.

Posted by: Tsee on July 14, 2005 10:48 AM

Hey space fans: Have you seen this? Also try zooming in all the way.

http://moon.google.com/

Posted by: Greg on July 20, 2005 12:24 PM

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