NASA’s Next Moon Rocket Launch Will Be Streamed Live in 8K and VR - IGN

Space nerds volition beryllium capable to watercourse the inaugural motorboat of NASA’s gigantic satellite rocket unrecorded successful 8K and 360 grade VR erstwhile it launches connected November 16. Hopefully.

Upon launch, the Space Launch System (SLS) volition beryllium the astir almighty rocket ever to blast disconnected from our planet’s surface. However, really getting the darn happening disconnected the crushed is proving to beryllium thing of a nightmare for NASA.

The super-heavy assistance rocket was archetypal meant to motorboat successful 2017, but a bid of method issues pushed the maiden voyage of the SLS each the mode backmost to 2022. Even with this other clip the SLS is inactive struggling to get connected a motorboat footing.

Already this year, a slew of method problems including engine cooling and fuel-loading issues person contributed to a fig of scrubbed motorboat attempts. These holdups, combined with the disruption caused by Hurricane Ian, led to NASA mounting a caller November 16 motorboat model for the rocket, which volition unfastened promptly astatine 1:04 a.m. EST.

For this latest attempt, the collaborative unreality streaming level MeetMo.io is partnering with Felix & Paul Studios and FlightLine Films to supply super-high explanation streams of the launch.

Viewers volition beryllium capable to entree 8K unrecorded streams from aggregate cameras arrayed astir the Kennedy Space Center successful Cape Canaveral, Florida connected Facebook starting astatine 11:57 p.m. ET connected November 15.

The effort volition besides beryllium disposable successful VR via Meta Quest, and arsenic a 4K 360 grade stream. 360 grade fulldome projections volition besides beryllium hosted successful a fig of domes and planetariums.

Whilst NASA is presently stating that the motorboat volition spell ahead, it is besides tracking a imaginable contented with the rocket’s launch-abort strategy (LAS). The tower-like operation - which is located astatine the pinnacle of the 320-ft-tall rocket - is designed to propulsion the Orion bid capsule distant from information successful the lawsuit of a malfunction with the motorboat conveyance portion connected the pad, oregon successful flight.

Insulation astir the basal of the LAS was damaged by the winds of Hurricane Ian, and engineers are presently assessing whether determination is simply a information that it could travel escaped during launch.

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