NASA TV

NASA TV

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NASA Television is carried on an MPEG-2 digital signal accessed via satellite AMC-6, at 72 degrees west longitude, transponder 17C, 4040 MHz, vertical polarization. A Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) - compliant Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) with modulation of QPSK/DBV, data rate of 36.86 and FEC 3/4 is needed for reception. NASA TV Multichannel Broadcast includes: Public Services Channel (Channel 101); the Education Channel (Channel 102) and the Media Services Channel (Channel 103).

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Hello fellow ATS members, i thought i would post this as it will provide a broadcast of the launch and possibly one of the most difficult missions to date.

There are many factors to consider with this mission as many of you are aware that a back crew is has been on stand by if anything goes wrong.

Any way i hope you enjoy this as much as i do. The following link is were you can view it.

59minutes to launch.
www.nasa.gov...

www.nasa.gov
(visit the link for the full news article)

So I'm guessing...don't laugh please... if I want to watch this I have to have a satellite and know how to reposition it to recieve the signal?

I will be watching thanks !!

Lets hope all goes well .

No you can view it via the internet no need for any sat system.

To view the launch click here
www.nasa.gov...


Oh dear, i have made a double post of this topic.. Sorry guys :-(

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You dont need a satellite. Just call your cable provider or go online to their site and find out what channel it is on. I live in central FL and I have Brighthouse and it's channel 49.


Oops tristar you beat me to it. I was typing this as you posted. Sorry.

[edit on 5/11/2009 by mblahnikluver]

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I believe the launch will go fine, but i have a weird feeling about all this something is not right, cant place my finger on it but then again it maybe due to the summer season coming in.

Its always very interesting to hear the pre flight checks between flight and ground crew stations. With so many pre flight checks i guess there are equivalent problems that might go wrong.

Thanks for the info guys, I don't have cable or satellite TV out here but I had a dish laying around

I'm going to watch online, thanks again for the help and not laughing at me

Launch has been delayed at the moment due to ice on one of the umbilical pipes connected to the shuttle. Apparently this happened on STS 126 and didn't cause a problem.

I think they have 40 - 50 mins to launch within todays window.

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Oh..damn, was watching when the tech guys were taking photos of it earlier on, just hope its not going to be delayed for too long.

Originally posted by Estharik
Thanks for the info guys, I don't have cable or satellite TV out here but I had a dish laying around

I'm going to watch online, thanks again for the help and not laughing at me

There was no need to laugh, you asked a simple straight forward and honest question. Just glad you sorted it out and have switched to view it.

Originally posted by UKWO1Phot
Launch has been delayed at the moment due to ice on one of the umbilical pipes connected to the shuttle. Apparently this happened on STS 126 and didn't cause a problem.

I think they have 40 - 50 mins to launch within todays window.

You sure about the delay, i just heard there pressing on and only some reference about some cloud build up. But for now there in th green light but if the cloud builds up there going for red light and delay the launch.

I have limited bandwith per day due to satellite internet, streaming video really eats it up. I've checked it twice now and I see they're delayed it both times I was not viewing. Glad to see someone posted about ice buildup being the cause. I have it on a timer to view in another 7 minutes or so.

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Have you selected the lower band width , image maybe be slightly poor but it wont eat your bandwidth .

Well its a green light , 7 mins to launch, well Good Luck to them and a safe return.

Ok..

They've just started the countdown again.. T - 9 mins, as of 18.53 GMT

All umbilicals being removed..

7 mins as of 18.55 GMT..

Woot looks like they made it into orbit, or close to. Nothing wrong engine wise it seems. Lets hope these guys can do their job without a hitch so they don't have to launch another shuttle to get them back.

Only problem is a bad... transducer? Ah well they seem to be shrugging it off. I hope hubble stays in use for a good while longer, I love the pictures it takes.

I'm watching the live feed and noticed they're using Windows XP. You can see the taskbar at the bottom of the image. Interesting..

Originally posted by BlueShaman
I'm watching the live feed and noticed they're using Windows XP. You can see the taskbar at the bottom of the image. Interesting..

Cool find