NASA will launch something other than a rocket next week: a new ad-free, no-cost streaming service, NASA+.
The US space agency hopes to revamp its web presence beyond its current NASA TV broadcast service and YouTube channel while adding new, original streaming content that promises to ‘put the universe at your fingertips.’
But the streamer will also maintain NASA TV’s tradition of ‘Emmy award-winning live coverage,’ like this September’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid landing, the agency said in their tease of the new service.
The new trailer for the platform’s offerings teased the title cards of its forthcoming ‘family friendly’ space science originals and its literally ‘out of this world’ documentary offerings.
Here’s where you can access the new service and what you’ll find on it.
The US space agency hopes to revamp its web presence — beyond its current ‘NASA TV’ broadcast service and YouTube channel — while also adding new, original streaming content, like ‘NASA Explorers’ (above) that promises to ‘puts the universe at your fingertips’
The new trailer for the NASA+ platform’s offerings teased, at blinding speed, the title cards of its ‘family friendly’ science originals and literally ‘out of this world’ documentary offerings. Little is currently known about the full these tantalizing new series and specials
The new NASA+ streamer will be available for download and use on most major platforms via the NASA App on iOS and Android mobile phones, laptops and tablet devices. The services will also be accessible via streaming media players such as, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV as well
According to a statement from NASA, the new NASA+ streamer will be available for download and use most major platforms via the NASA App on iOS and Android mobile phones, laptops and tablet devices.
The services will also be accessible via streaming media players such as, Roku, Apple TV, and Fire TV; as well as via web browsers on desktop PCs and mobile devices.
‘We’re putting space on demand and at your fingertips with NASA’s new streaming platform,’ Marc Etkind, the associate administrator for NASA’s Office of Communications, said last July, when NASA+ was first mentioned.
‘Transforming our digital presence will help us better tell the stories of how NASA explores the unknown in air and space,’ Etkind said, ‘inspires through discovery, and innovates for the benefit of humanity.’
The space agency plans to gradually consolidate more of its disconnected agency websites and multimedia libraries onto NASA+ for a more exciting and educational viewer experience.
That means that content from all of NASA’s research institutions — everything from climate satellite images via NASA’s Goddard Earth Sciences Division to first looks at new worlds via the James Webb telescope — will be ready to watch in one place.
Nicky Fox, an associate administrator for the agency’s Science Mission Directorate, said NASA+ hopes to ‘ultimately building stronger connections with our visitors and viewers.’
NASA’s chief information officer Jeff Seaton, summed up the agency’s goal in still loftier terms: ‘Our vision is to inspire humanity through a unified, world-class NASA web experience,’ Seaton said.