SpaceX Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 : SpX-DM2 : May 27, 2020 : DISCUSSION

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From Spaceflightnow.com
05/27/2020 11:05
Stephen Clark Stephen Clark
Viewers can toggle between two video feeds during today's countdown and launch. NASA TV's video coverage will include interviews, video segments and other features during the countdown.

A clean feed is also being provided by NASA, which will include only the audio from the SpaceX launch team and communications between the astronauts and mission control in Hawthorne, California.

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[therein69]

WOW so many negative comments on a potentially historic day. Sit back, watch and enjoy.

[Star One]

I'm already missing having a SpaceX only stream. Infantile NASA social media guff and jingoism. Just give me John Insprucker telling us the facts!

I would apply that comment equally whoever is providing it as far as social media is concerned.

[ames]

Looking at AccuWeather there appears to be a large area of precipitation over Kissimmee heading towards the cape. Estimate arrival in ~1 hour. After this things look clear.

[the_other_Doug]

Yeah, it appears that SpaceX will simply stream NASA-TV's coverage, provided as some kind of subcontract by Launch America. 

It's not "simply stream" NASA coverage, the entire coverage is a NASA/SpaceX collaboration just as DM-1 was (for which they received 2 Emmy awards). Both parties have just as much of a right to stream it as a result.

Kewl.  Yeah, I see they have integrated the SpaceX and NASA commentators into one broadcast.  Good.  Again, though, I'm here for a launch, not speeches by politicians who arguably had nothing to do with getting us to this day.

Watching ESA politicians congratulating each other for six hours after 20 minutes of mission coverage, even on failed missions, has made me very emotionally allergic to this kind of thing.  Heck, I even fast forward through Spiro Agnew giving his pep talks to the Saturn V launch teams after the Apollo launches.  I've never felt politicians have a place at these events.

That's just my opinion, of course.  Your mileage may vary...

[rdale]

Looking at AccuWeather there appears to be a large area of precipitation over Kissimmee heading towards the cape. Estimate arrival in ~1 hour. After this things look clear.

That’s not how it works Storms are forming - it isn’t a complex.

[ugordan]

That's just my opinion, of course.  Your mileage may vary...

I would agree, stuff like performing the U.S. national anthem is a bit much for me, but hey, I'm not a taxpayer.

All I really care about is that Doug and Bob are safely on their way, the accompanying fluff I can live with.

[Star One]

Yeah, it appears that SpaceX will simply stream NASA-TV's coverage, provided as some kind of subcontract by Launch America. 

It's not "simply stream" NASA coverage, the entire coverage is a NASA/SpaceX collaboration just as DM-1 was (for which they received 2 Emmy awards). Both parties have just as much of a right to stream it as a result.

Kewl.  Yeah, I see they have integrated the SpaceX and NASA commentators into one broadcast.  Good.  Again, though, I'm here for a launch, not speeches by politicians who arguably had nothing to do with getting us to this day.

Watching ESA politicians congratulating each other for six hours after 20 minutes of mission coverage, even on failed missions, has made me very emotionally allergic to this kind of thing.  Heck, I even fast forward through Spiro Agnew giving his pep talks to the Saturn V launch teams after the Apollo launches.  I've never felt politicians have a place at these events.

That's just my opinion, of course.  Your mileage may vary...

Not sure what ESA do or don’t do has got much to do with this.

[ames]

Looking at AccuWeather there appears to be a large area of precipitation over Kissimmee heading towards the cape. Estimate arrival in ~1 hour. After this things look clear.

That’s not how it works Storms are forming - it isn’t a complex.

OK, so they form precipitate and disappear but they do travel with the prevailing wind. Are you saying that it won't reach the cape or that more will follow?

[rdale]

OK, so they form precipitate and disappear but they do travel with the prevailing wind. Are you saying that it won't reach the cape or that more will follow?

More will follow - keep an eye on my updates, as noted before I'll post them on the hour.

[mark_m]

FYI on the Nasa app there's an additional feed, with some raw video (currently of the suit testing process wrapping up) and the countdown net only for audio. It's the "NASA TV Media" tab in the NASA TV section (and the countdown net audio is silent a lot of the time, but it's there).

[Edit to add specifics of where it's at.]

[the_other_Doug]

So, to avoid all the jingoism I've switched to the Mission Control Audio feed.  It is a gray screen with what looks like a text cursor right smack in the middle.  Absolutely no sound at all, over the past 15 minutes.

Has anyone had this feed on, seen this gray screen, but actually heard audio?  Or is this feed broken, and no one there realizes it?

[Star One]

I am guessing the face masks the support crew & the VIPs are all wearing aren’t the common ones that the public can buy?

[STS-124]

So, to avoid all the jingoism I've switched to the Mission Control Audio feed.  It is a gray screen with what looks like a text cursor right smack in the middle.  Absolutely no sound at all, over the past 15 minutes.

Has anyone had this feed on, seen this gray screen, but actually heard audio?  Or is this feed broken, and no one there realizes it?

Works perfectly fine for me

[rdale]

Jim is wearing a standard surgical mask, and Elon isn't wearing a N95, so they appear to be the normal public ones.

[STS-124]

I am guessing the face masks the support crew & the VIPs are all wearing aren’t the common ones that the public can buy?

As an EMT:
They seem fairly bog-standard home-made cloth sewn so called "surgical" masks to match the suits, so for all intents and purposes these are public ones.

[rdale]

I've heard zero audio on the mission control feed.

[the_other_Doug]

So, to avoid all the jingoism I've switched to the Mission Control Audio feed.  It is a gray screen with what looks like a text cursor right smack in the middle.  Absolutely no sound at all, over the past 15 minutes.

Has anyone had this feed on, seen this gray screen, but actually heard audio?  Or is this feed broken, and no one there realizes it?

Works perfectly fine for me

Different stream.  That is NASA TV's Media channel.  The one I'm speaking of is SpaceX's Mission Control Audio channel.  Look on YouTube under SpaceX's channel and you'll see it.

[STS-124]

Oh right, I am out then, I can only speak for the clean one by NASA which has had (albeit very few) Radio Interchanges.

[the_other_Doug]

I've heard zero audio on the mission control feed.

Yep, that's the feed I meant, and that's the gray screen with this subtle cursor smack in the center.

Can Chris G. and the webcast team let SpaceX know somehow that their audio-only feed is broken?  I know, that's a long shot, just because there are people at the Cape doesn't mean they can saunter in to SpaceX's Cape facilities to report a streaming feed issue, LOL... but hey, it's worth a try.