SpaceVidcast
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Spacevidcast, often abbreviated as SVC, is a live weekly HD
video podcast
hosted by husband and wife team, Cariann Higginbotham and Benjamin Higginbotham. The mission statement for Spacevidcast is "Making space commonplace."
SVC's main purpose, as stated, is
In contrast to most space-related podcasts, Spacevidcast is produced independently and is not associated with any governmental or private organization, which sets it apart from other shows like NASA Edge
or Hubblecast. In August 2011 show host Benjamin Higginbotham was hired at SpaceX
, however there is no tie between SpaceX
and Spacevidcast.
Aside from the generally available video content Spacevidcast also offers some audio and text content as well as a paid service called EPIC, st started a paid, includes a wide variety of "extra" content. In addition a Spacevidcast Wiki is hosted by the initiative. Spacevidcast was awarded the Best Presentation of Space Award during NewSpace 2010.
community or interview guests.
and Soyuz
launches, the Phoenix Mars landing, the launch of Jules Verne ATV
, the GLAST Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-1
, Shenzhou 7
, the Kepler Mission
as well as commercial satellite launches. The website was one of many outlets to broadcast a live feed of the lunar impact by NASA's LCROSS
spacecraft and participated in Guy Laliberté
's Poetic Social Mission Event: Moving Stars and Earth for Water. These events are usually summed up in short daily clips dedicated to one or two events.
Additionally, Spacevidcast streams NASA TV
with an accompanying chat room through UStream
live 24/7 with an HD video feed during launches and other significant events.
announcement by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson.
, an annual event hosted and organized by the National Space Society
. As part of its coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the main presentations as well as an option for viewers to send questions via the chat room. The videos were also made available on demand. In addition to direct coverage of the conference, Spacevidcast also broadcast a regular weekly show from the ISDC 2009 setting and the hosts participated in a panel discussion on May 29 entitled Space Media 2.0.
San Diego unconference, the first major space BarCamp
-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations as well as much of the Ignite
talks. The videos are now available on demand. The quality of these videos is low only because of a lack of internet connections at the conference and spotty cell phone coverage.
NewSpace Conference, a yearly conference for NewSpace leaders to meet and organize the future of the NewSpace
movement. Benjamin and Cariann provided live coverage of each of the talks during the weekend. The videos are now available on demand (some are EPIC subscriber-only).
Washington D.C. unconference, the second space BarCamp
-like event hosted by Evadot founder Michael Doornbos. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and Ignite
talks. The videos are now all available to watch on their Youtube
channel.
San Diego unconference, the third space BarCamp
-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society
and the first repeat SpaceUp, held on February 12–13, 2011. Cariann Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and, assisted by corporate and private sponsors, will be providing live video webcast
s of the many of the presentations and T-5 talks (similar to Ignite
talks). The videos will be available to watch on their Youtube
channel and will be viewable live on their website.
Houston unconference, the fourth space BarCamp
-like event hosted by the Clear Lake NSS/Moon Society and the Lunar and Planetary Institute
on February 12–13, 2011. Benjamin Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and will be providing live video webcast
s of the many of the presentations and demonstrations. The videos will be available to watch on their Youtube
channel and will be viewable live on their website.
High-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...
video podcast
Video podcast
Video podcast is a term used for the online delivery of video on demand video clip content via Atom or RSS enclosures...
hosted by husband and wife team, Cariann Higginbotham and Benjamin Higginbotham. The mission statement for Spacevidcast is "Making space commonplace."
SVC's main purpose, as stated, is
In contrast to most space-related podcasts, Spacevidcast is produced independently and is not associated with any governmental or private organization, which sets it apart from other shows like NASA Edge
NASA Edge
NASA EDGE is a video podcast which explores different missions, technologies and projects developed by NASA. The program was released by NASA on March 18, 2007, and , there have been 53 vodcasts produced.-Description:...
or Hubblecast. In August 2011 show host Benjamin Higginbotham was hired at SpaceX
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
, however there is no tie between SpaceX
SpaceX
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or more popularly and informally known as SpaceX, is an American space transport company that operates out of Hawthorne, California...
and Spacevidcast.
Aside from the generally available video content Spacevidcast also offers some audio and text content as well as a paid service called EPIC, st started a paid, includes a wide variety of "extra" content. In addition a Spacevidcast Wiki is hosted by the initiative. Spacevidcast was awarded the Best Presentation of Space Award during NewSpace 2010.
Format
The show consists of several parts, starting with a show-opener that includes a Spacevidcast theme song, a logo including the motto Making Space Commonplace and a collection of space related footage. After a brief introduction of the hosts and a short off-topic discussion, the first segment of the show is Space News. Prepared by co-host Cariann, Space News takes up most of the first part of the podcast. A number of videos, as well as the Spacevidcast calendar of upcoming spaceflight-related events, are played after the news segment. During the third segment, the show hosts either discuss one or more topics with the live chat roomChat room
The term chat room, or chatroom, is primarily used by mass media to describe any form of synchronous conferencing, occasionally even asynchronous conferencing...
community or interview guests.
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Live events and daily-casts
Spacevidcast has covered a number of live events such as ShuttleSpace Shuttle program
NASA's Space Shuttle program, officially called Space Transportation System , was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011...
and Soyuz
Soyuz programme
The Soyuz programme is a human spaceflight programme that was initiated by the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, originally part of a Moon landing project intended to put a Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon...
launches, the Phoenix Mars landing, the launch of Jules Verne ATV
Jules Verne ATV
The Jules Verne ATV, or Automated Transfer Vehicle 001 , was an unmanned cargo resupply spacecraft launched by the European Space Agency . The ATV was named after the French science-fiction author Jules Verne...
, the GLAST Space Telescope, Chandrayaan-1
Chandrayaan
Chandrayaan-1 was India's first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008, and operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor...
, Shenzhou 7
Shenzhou 7
- Backup crew :Of the back-up crew, only Chen Quan had not previously flown in space.- Mission highlights :The Long March 2F rocket launched the Shenzhou 7 into an initial elliptical orbit of 200 x 330 kilometres inclined at 42.4 degrees on 25 September 2008. About seven hours later the spacecraft...
, the Kepler Mission
Kepler Mission
The Kepler spacecraft is an American space observatory, the space-based portion of NASA's Kepler Mission to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft is named in honor of the 17th-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler...
as well as commercial satellite launches. The website was one of many outlets to broadcast a live feed of the lunar impact by NASA's LCROSS
LCROSS
The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA. The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the moon. The main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice...
spacecraft and participated in Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberté, OC, CQ is a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist, poker player, space tourist and the current CEO of Cirque du Soleil...
's Poetic Social Mission Event: Moving Stars and Earth for Water. These events are usually summed up in short daily clips dedicated to one or two events.
Additionally, Spacevidcast streams NASA TV
NASA TV
NASA TV is the television service of the United States government agency NASA. NASA TV is broadcast by satellite with a simulcast over the Internet. Local cable television systems across the U.S. and amateur television repeaters may carry NASA TV at their discretion, as NASA-created content is...
with an accompanying chat room through UStream
Ustream
Ustream is a website which consists of a network of diverse channels providing a platform for lifecasting and live video streaming of events online. Established in March 2007, the site has over 2,000,000 registered users who generate 1,500,000+ hours of live streamed content per month with over ten...
live 24/7 with an HD video feed during launches and other significant events.
2008 Lunar Lander Challenge
The Spacevidcast team was the official event webcaster for the X Prize Foundation's 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge.Spacevidcast streamed continuously from Las Cruces, New Mexico on October 24 and October 25. The hosts were on site to interview team leaders and VIP guests. The podcast was also the only media outlet to cover the Rocket Racing League at Spaceport AmericaSpaceport America
Spaceport America is a spaceport located in the Jornada del Muerto desert basin in New Mexico, United States. It lies north of El Paso, north of Las Cruces, east of Truth or Consequences...
announcement by the governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson.
ISDC 2009
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2009 International Space Development ConferenceInternational Space Development Conference
The International Space Development Conference is the annual conference of the National Space Society . Now in its 30th year, these conferences connect the general public and the NSS membership with leaders of contemporary space efforts...
, an annual event hosted and organized by the National Space Society
National Space Society
The National Space Society is an international nonprofit 501, educational, and scientific organization specializing in space advocacy...
. As part of its coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the main presentations as well as an option for viewers to send questions via the chat room. The videos were also made available on demand. In addition to direct coverage of the conference, Spacevidcast also broadcast a regular weekly show from the ISDC 2009 setting and the hosts participated in a panel discussion on May 29 entitled Space Media 2.0.
SpaceUp San Diego (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUpSpaceUp
SpaceUp is an open attendance space exploration unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. SpaceUps have been held on both West and East coasts, and in Houston...
San Diego unconference, the first major space BarCamp
BarCamp
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences . They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open...
-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations as well as much of the Ignite
Ignite (event)
Ignite is a global event, organized by volunteers, where participants are given five minutes to speak about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The Ignite format is similar to...
talks. The videos are now available on demand. The quality of these videos is low only because of a lack of internet connections at the conference and spotty cell phone coverage.
NewSpace 2010 (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 Space Frontier FoundationSpace Frontier Foundation
The Space Frontier Foundation is a space advocacy nonprofit corporation organized to promote the interests of increased involvement of the private sector, in collaboration with government, in the exploration and development of space...
NewSpace Conference, a yearly conference for NewSpace leaders to meet and organize the future of the NewSpace
NewSpace
NewSpace, alt.space, and entrepreneurial space are umbrella terms for a movement and philosophy often affiliated with, but not synonymous with, an emergent private spaceflight industry...
movement. Benjamin and Cariann provided live coverage of each of the talks during the weekend. The videos are now available on demand (some are EPIC subscriber-only).
SpaceUp D.C. (2010)
Spacevidcast was the exclusive webcaster of the 2010 SpaceUpSpaceUp
SpaceUp is an open attendance space exploration unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. SpaceUps have been held on both West and East coasts, and in Houston...
Washington D.C. unconference, the second space BarCamp
BarCamp
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences . They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open...
-like event hosted by Evadot founder Michael Doornbos. As part of their coverage, the hosts provided live video webcasts of the many of the presentations and Ignite
Ignite (event)
Ignite is a global event, organized by volunteers, where participants are given five minutes to speak about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The Ignite format is similar to...
talks. The videos are now all available to watch on their Youtube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel.
SpaceUp San Diego (2011)
Spacevidcast is the exclusive webcaster of the 2011 SpaceUpSpaceUp
SpaceUp is an open attendance space exploration unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. SpaceUps have been held on both West and East coasts, and in Houston...
San Diego unconference, the third space BarCamp
BarCamp
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences . They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open...
-like event hosted by the San Diego Space Society
San Diego Space Society
The San Diego Space Society is a chapter of the National Space Society based in San Diego and founded in 2008.The group's goal is to raise awareness of the benefits of human exploration of space and San Diego's role in space development by promoting space education in local schools and events...
and the first repeat SpaceUp, held on February 12–13, 2011. Cariann Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and, assisted by corporate and private sponsors, will be providing live video webcast
Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
s of the many of the presentations and T-5 talks (similar to Ignite
Ignite (event)
Ignite is a global event, organized by volunteers, where participants are given five minutes to speak about their ideas and personal or professional passions, accompanied by 20 slides. Each slide is displayed for 15 seconds, and slides are automatically advanced. The Ignite format is similar to...
talks). The videos will be available to watch on their Youtube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel and will be viewable live on their website.
SpaceUp Houston (2011)
Spacevidcast is the exclusive webcaster of the 2011 SpaceUpSpaceUp
SpaceUp is an open attendance space exploration unconference, where participants decide the topics, schedule, and structure of the event. SpaceUps have been held on both West and East coasts, and in Houston...
Houston unconference, the fourth space BarCamp
BarCamp
BarCamp is an international network of user-generated conferences . They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social protocols, and open...
-like event hosted by the Clear Lake NSS/Moon Society and the Lunar and Planetary Institute
Lunar and Planetary Institute
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is a scientific research institute dedicated to study of the solar system, its formation, evolution, and current state. The Institute is part of the Universities Space Research Association and is supported by the Science Mission Directorate of the National...
on February 12–13, 2011. Benjamin Higginbotham, co-host of Spacevidcast, is attending the event and will be providing live video webcast
Webcast
A webcast is a media presentation distributed over the Internet using streaming media technology to distribute a single content source to many simultaneous listeners/viewers. A webcast may either be distributed live or on demand...
s of the many of the presentations and demonstrations. The videos will be available to watch on their Youtube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
channel and will be viewable live on their website.