MSL Landing live streams, Post links here to provide options in case some get overloaded Options

[elakdawalla]

At Harder's suggestion I'm starting a thread to collect links to places that promise live streams during the MSL landing. NASA TV is of course the #1 place to go, and I assume that NASA TV will be mirrored on the NASAJPL Ustream channel. The Society will be offering a stream from Planetfest. SpaceflightNow usually does live updates but experience has shown that they don't handle heavy traffic well. Failing anything else, you can bet your bottom dollar I will be Tweeting up a storm.

Anybody have other live stream / live update suggestions? Post them here. Please keep chitchat to a minimum to make it easy to find links among the text.

[jmknapp]

Which Earth-based antenna is likely to get the first indication of a successful landing? A quick check with Stellarium indicates that at Goldstone, CA, Mars will be just setting at 10:31 PT on Aug. 5. It will be well below the horizon at Madrid and Jodrell Bank, UK. So would Canberra (Mars elevation over 60° at zero hour) be the one?

For people down Australia way, Canberra DSN is hosting a live landing party but for those of us on the other side of the world they have a twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/CanberraDSN

[dmuller]

For people down Australia way, Canberra DSN is hosting a live landing party

Yep and I will most likely make the trip up to the CDSCC ... @Astro0 I'm counting on the car park not being full 'cos it's a bit far to walk from Sydney :-)
MSL realtime simulation is up at http://www.dmuller.net/spaceflight/realtime.php?mission=msl but it's not as good as they used to be. After two years of neglect (too much work) I'm glad I got it back to that stage! Anyway there is better to be had nowadays (e.g. Eyes) that wasn't there for Phoenix (wow, 4 years ago!)

[ChrisC]

MSL realtime simulation is up at http://www.dmuller.net/spaceflight/realtime.php?mission=msl but it's not as good as they used to be. After two years of neglect (too much work) I'm glad I got it back to that stage! Anyway there is better to be had nowadays (e.g. Eyes) that wasn't there for Phoenix (wow, 4 years ago!)

I'm so glad to hear that the dmuller.net status is working again! I really don't think that Eyes is a substitute, since it's a Big Deal to start it up and get it working (and I have so far failed to get it to work, but I'm still trying). The dmuller.net pages remain an excellent resource for us; I know it may not seem like much since you have just a handful of events in there, but I really like it. Thank you dmuller!

EDIT: Daniel, I think you have a time offset error in the simulation. With LESS than 24 hours to go as I type this edit, the sim says there are just under 30 hours to go. I think it's taking my local time in ET and subtracting it from the timeline times in GMT, because that would explain the 6 hour error.

[Skyrunner]

EDIT: Daniel, I think you have a time offset error in the simulation. ... because that would explain the 6 hour error.

I second that Daniel. Love your site but I see that 6 too (CEST is local for me)