DC regional broadcast on NASA TV [Archive]

dlavery

25-02-2009, 11:55

Due to some last-minute finagling and arm-twisting, and the slip in the Space Shuttle launch schedule (http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html), access to the NASA TV satellite has become available. As a result, NASA will be broadcasting the Washington DC Regional Competition all day Saturday and possibly Friday afternoon. Details on the exact schedule, access and viewing options will be released shortly. Please check the NASA Robotics Alliance Project (http://robots.nasa.gov/) for further details as they become available later today and tomorrow.

-dave

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JaneYoung

25-02-2009, 11:58

Fabulous!

pitzoid

25-02-2009, 12:11

AWESOME Dave!

Ian Curtis

25-02-2009, 12:23

I know C-Span typically broadcasts the NASA TV feed during Shuttle launches. Can you convince them to broadcast DC in its place? :cool:

Also, looking farther down the schedule, I see that STS-125 is scheduled for May 12th and STS-127 is scheduled for launch (to the ISS) two days later. Wasn't the deal that another Shuttle had to hang out on the launch pad while STS-125 was servicing Hubble?

JesseK

25-02-2009, 12:29

Sweet! I should be able to get this playing at work in the cafeteria if it's up Friday.

The Lucas

25-02-2009, 12:36

Due to some last-minute finagling and arm-twisting, and the slip in the Space Shuttle launch schedule (http://www.nasa.gov/missions/highlights/schedule.html), access to the NASA TV satellite has become available. As a result, NASA will be broadcasting the Washington DC Regional Competition all day Saturday and possibly Friday afternoon.

Everyone better enjoy the broadcast, Dave had to cancel a shuttle launch to make it happen :D

All joking aside, this great news and very fitting that the inaugural DC regional makes NASA TV.

Tristan Lall

25-02-2009, 12:44

Also, looking farther down the schedule, I see that STS-125 is scheduled for May 12th and STS-127 is scheduled for launch (to the ISS) two days later. Wasn't the deal that another Shuttle had to hang out on the launch pad while STS-125 was servicing Hubble?If STS-125 is placed on pad 39A, STS-127 will be delayed. The STS-400 shuttle (the contingency plan) would either be placed on pad 39B, or put on pad 39A after STS-125 departed.

DUCKIE

25-02-2009, 12:50

Everyone better enjoy the broadcast, Dave had to cancel a shuttle launch to make it happen :D

I bet Humphrey helped. (Just like Jinx "helped")

Storcky

25-02-2009, 15:44

SWEET! This is the first regional that my team is attending that I won't be there, so now I can watch!

Elgin Clock

25-02-2009, 15:53

YAY!! (kind of...)
Now I don't have to drive to DC to see who won the award I was judging this past weekend for the regional.
Awesome!

(Then again, I would have liked to go to DC but I will probably just end up in NJ or NH this weekend instead.
I still haven't decided which one I'm going to yet, but I may not even be able to see the webcast anyways with the traveling involved.)
Oh wells.

aksimhal

25-02-2009, 16:31

If NASA is going to be only broadcasting on Saturday and Friday evening, should I attempt to webcast the regional (via ustream.tv)?

[along the same lines, does anyone know if I could get a strong enough internet connection at the DC Regional? Thanks]

Vikesrock

25-02-2009, 17:03

According to the DC Webcast page here (http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2009_dc_webcast.php), NASA will have a webcast from 9:00AM to 6:00PM Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

The broadcast on NASA TV will be 1:00PM-6:00PM on Friday and 9:00AM-6:00PM on Saturday.

All times EST

pentau

25-02-2009, 20:40

Awesome! Well, I'll be there myself, but I'll tell everyone I know who won't be to check it out. Thanks to NASA TV and the Robotics Alliance Project!

tim-tim

26-02-2009, 09:21

Is anone else having problems connecting to the NASA webcast? I can get the NASA TV channel, but not the webcast which runs all day today

-Tim

camtunkpa

26-02-2009, 09:26

I'm experiencing the same problems Tim.

Elgin Clock

26-02-2009, 09:26

Same problem here with the DC webcast, although... I wonder how many channels NASA has, since the NJ regional is also being webcast here via NASA:
http://www.team1676.com/wp/?page_id=295
Or supposed to be anyways, but it seems it hasn't started yet.

tim-tim

26-02-2009, 10:02

I am in Blacksburg trying to watch my team, 836 Robobees. Although it is practice matches today, I would have liked to know it was working for tomorrow mornings qualifying rounds

BobC

26-02-2009, 11:28

sammy

26-02-2009, 11:46

Is anone else having problems connecting to the NASA webcast? I can get the NASA TV channel, but not the webcast which runs all day today

-Tim

Still having issues apparently, mine just keeps trying to load on a blank screen. :( I assume someone will post if/when it gets fixed?

sammy

26-02-2009, 18:57

Great news! Thanks to our brilliant friends at NASA the webcast is fixed. Reload the link (http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2009_dc_webcast.php) and the webcast link works now. You can also open it in quicktime, which allows you to make the picture larger (I assume you can do this in Media Player as well).

Sam

tim-tim

26-02-2009, 19:05

Awesome!!!

It works in Windows Media and VLC as well...this is great news as I have class tomorrow morning, so I will miss the opening and early morning

-Tim

tim-tim

27-02-2009, 09:40

So the webcast link is down again this morning. Hopefully it is up shortly, if nothing else the NASA Channel at 1P will work

-Tim

Chuck Glick

27-02-2009, 10:04

Webcast is back up.

wilsonmw04

28-02-2009, 10:00

I wish I could see more of the field. I'm getting too many close up shots of robots. It's hard to see what that game is really like when you only see 1/4 of the field at once...

tim-tim

28-02-2009, 10:26

I agree ^^

I would rather have a camera angle that I could see the entire field, similar to other events. All you see is an upclose shot of a robot, and the rest of the field and other robots are pretty much unseen

Sunbun

28-02-2009, 10:43

Since they're piping in the arena video feed, I don't think anyone will be seeing the whole field... after all, people in the arena can see the whole field already, that would be redundant.

(Sadly)