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New set, new show! In our space news we cover a new satellite, space camp Barbie and astronomers are on the verge of finding Earth’s twin! Main topic is Mars: how do we get there and jumpstart that silly planet?

On Sunday, May 18th, 2008 PSB Satellite came to our house to install two different satellite dishes. We recorded him putting up and configuring the cooler of the two, the motorized Traxis dish.

PSB is a fantastic resource on all things satellite and you can get more information on how to purchase a setup like ours at http://www.psbsatellite.com. If you’re just an enthusiast and want to learn more about free-to-air satellite check out the forums he helps run at http://www.visionplus.us

While we’re not quite ready to do full blown daily space news updates yet (those should start again Wednesday) we do have a quick behind-the-scenes look at the new SpaceVidcast set and what makes us run.

I’m working on optimizing the workflow needed for the daily shows, and that means that I won’t have a space to shoot them for the next week or so.  For those of you who have seen our basement you know that we have pretty much dedicated the whole thing to the show and it’s a [...]

STS-124 comes to a close with the landing of Space Shuttle Discovery on June 14th, 2008 at 11:15am EDT.

There were two rocket launches this week which we get to watch as well as our usual space news! Google founder buys a ticket to the ISS for $5 million, an oceanic company wins a NASA bid to build the new spacesuits, our sun satellite mission is coming to a close and the NASA [...]

At 11:05am CDT, June 11th, 2008 a Delta II rocket carried GLAST into a circular Earth orbit. Here is the launch coverage for as long as we could see the rocket. GLAST has separated from the spacecraft and extended its solar panels.

Action packed day with Discovery due to undock from the International Space Station at 6:42am CDT and the launch of the GLAST satellite at 8:45am CDT. Make sure to catch these events live at http://www.spacevidcast.com/live later today or watch the replays.

What is GLAST you ask? Good question, we take a look at that in this daily SpaceVidcast.

Check out our new SpaceVidcast live video application written by SpaceVidcaster Colten, Discovery will be closing the hatch between the shuttle and ISS later today and you could win up to $2,000 in the SpaceContest!

Colten has written a kick butt new Adobe AIR application for SpaceVidcasters! There are a couple of problems with running video and chat in your browser:

Flash Video will stall your browser after a period of time.  It seems Flash video was not designed to run 24×7×365 client side.  While new versions of Flash promise [...]

We have updated on the STS124 mission including the toilet on the International Space Station. Phoenix may have found ice. SpaceVidcast has added a bunch of cool new features! Is Buzz Lightyear in space???

Show Links:
SpaceVidcast Daily News - http://www.spacevidcast.com/category/daily-update/
Phoenix Lander - http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4266966.html
ISS Potty Fixed - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/05/iss_toilet_fixed/
Shop PSBSatellite - http://shop.psbsatellite.com/product.sc?categoryId=1&productId=39
BUZZ Lightyear in [...]

Twin Cities Live gave me a few tips on how to do a better podcast, information on STS-124’s EVA#2 and the toilet on the International Space Station is fixed!

SpaceVidcast daily update with Discovery’s Rendezvous Pitch Maneuver (RPM), docking with the ISS and ingress. Pad 39A was damaged with the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery. Nyberg plays with her hair in zero G and SpaceVidcast will be on http://www.twincitieslive.com later in the day.
Dicovery RPM and Docking with the ISS, Pad 39A Damaged, [...]

Discovery has an issue with its left OMS gimble, STS-124 schedule for 06/02/2008 and Phoenix may have found water on Mars not even 1 week after it landed!

90 second space update: The launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, OV-103 on mission STS-124. Watch 24×7 live coverage of STS-124 at www.spacevidcast.com/live