Due to some last-minute finagling and arm-twisting, and the slip in the Space Shuttle launch schedule, 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 for further details as they become available later today and tomorrow.
-dave
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Fabulous!
AWESOME Dave!
I know C-Span typically broadcasts the NASA TV feed during Shuttle launches. Can you convince them to broadcast DC in its place? 
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?
Sweet! I should be able to get this playing at work in the cafeteria if it’s up Friday.
Everyone better enjoy the broadcast, Dave had to cancel a shuttle launch to make it happen 
All joking aside, this great news and very fitting that the inaugural DC regional makes NASA TV.
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.
I bet Humphrey helped. (Just like Jinx “helped”)
SWEET! This is the first regional that my team is attending that I won’t be there, so now I can watch!
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.
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]
According to the DC Webcast page here, 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
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!
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
I’m experiencing the same problems Tim.
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.
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
I am leaving Windsor Locks at 1pm with a stop in New York on the way.
Still having issues apparently, mine just keeps trying to load on a blank screen. 
I assume someone will post if/when it gets fixed?
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