2025-12-20 13:53:38
Launch in 20 minutes? The webcast of the second attept for #NewShepard 37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66VP21OjegA
Launch in 20 minutes? The webcast of the second attept for #NewShepard 37: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66VP21OjegA
Behind the scenes talk about how the English-language webcast of Japan's #SLIM landing on the Moon went: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxe3owbJr38#t=1h10m26s (from 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds) - see also https://cosmos.isas.jaxa.jp/landing-on-the-moon-behind-the-scenes-of-the-night-when-slim-made-history/ for a related article and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/slim-vor-mond-landung-peregine-vor-erd-crash/ (from "Japans SLIM – mit zwei Extra-Vehikeln – vor der Mondlandung" in chronological order) for my live coverage back then, based on the JAXA webcast and direct reception of radio signals from the lander by radio amateurs with a 20 meter dish in my home town.
And the next space launch webcast is on: #NewShepard 37 - see https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-37-mission and https://abcnews.go.com/US/1st-time-person-wheelchair-fly-space/story?id=128483608 and https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/science/blue-origin-launch-benthaus-koenigsmann for more.
Interstellar comet #3IATLAS webcast double feature today (19 November): first at 4:15 UTC on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krU8gN-J9gY the next attempt of a live observation from Italy (the first one had been clouded out) - and then at 20:00 UTC on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A55SUq2eDXg a NASA press conference with spacecraft observations.
Launch of #NewShepard 37 "is no earlier than Saturday, December 20. Our window opens at 8:00 AM CST / 14:00 UTC. The live webcast will begin 20 minutes prior to launch": https://www.blueorigin.com/news/new-shepard-ns-37-mission
On December 17, 2025 at 2:01 a.m. local time (5:01 UTC, 6:01 CET), Arianespace will launch #Galileo L14, a pair of satellites, with Ariane 6 from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana: at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho6lSJ0mOBU a webcast from 4:30 UTC, at https://www.esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Follow_the_Galileo_launch_L14_campaign some updates.
The webcast of the 11th #Starship flight test has begun: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mrGmBjyEZgJy - t zero is 23:23 UTC.
Aeolian Sediment Lithification From Late-Stage Aqueous Activity in the Gale Crater - Implications for Habitability on #Mars: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008804 -> Evidence of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer Than Believed: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/latest-news/science-and-technology/2025/november/nyuad-research-uncovers-mars-water-history.html. Meanwhile an early webcast for the ESCAPADE launch is already running at https://www.youtube.com/live/9sT4Hr-Il30
RE: https://social.beachcom.org/@nasa/115688325883480128
The first Soyuz landing I recall with no live view of the final minutes (due to poor weather) and no immediate announcement of touchdown in the webcast either.
The next launch attempt for New Glenn with #ESCAPADE is no earlier than November 12, due to forecasted weather and sea state conditions: https://www.blueorigin.com/missions/ng-2 - Blue Origin has worked with the FAA and range to select a launch window from 19:50 to 21:17 UTC; the live webcast starts at T-20 minutes.
The launch of the latest #Copernicus satellite Sentinel-1D is planned for 21:02 UTC today, webcast from 20:32 UTC at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6daC_wTrjS0
In 10 minutes the webcast of the triple #heliophysics launch - IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and Space Weather Follow On–Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) - at 11:30 UTC should begin on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNRrfamTT4k; see https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/upcoming-launch-to-boost-nasas-study-of-suns-influence-across-space/ for more and https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/imap for mission updates.
Ten minutes til the launch of #Transporter15 in #Vandenberg with 140 (!) small satellites including the pay-per-view astronomical observatory #Mauve: https://www.spacex.com/launches/transporter-15 with a webcast at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKDNLQdPAJV mirrored by https://watch.esa.int/Two/
15 minutes til the launch of a new unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft (HTV-X1) aboard the 7th H3 Launch Vehicle (H3 F7) to the #ISS in Japan: webcast with English commentary at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEq84QrSEA
Amazing raw (!) images of comet #Lemmon with different optics and cameras in the live webcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0jJnuuwq8 from Italy from 2 1/2 hours ago.