Update: hurricane season’s in full swing and that delayed the launch to this Monday, the 7th.
Meanwhile, RussSchnapp’s SoCal Skylights has some additional information:
Space Flight Now has another article on the TankCam. You can also subscribe for $50/year and watch archived launches at their site.
Ecliptic Enterprises makes the camera/transmitter used on the TankCam, and has more footage from launches on their site.
Holy smoke! Drop what you’re doing and go to Ecliptic’s site now these launch videoes are GoshWowSensaWunder cool.
NASA has strapped a video camera to external fuel tank of the space shuttle Atlantis, and plans to show the live feed from the camera, which will look down on the orbiter and SRBs through the ascent, dropping the SRBs, and the external tank’s uncermonious ditching into the ocean.
The launch is on Wednesday, October 2nd, so if your cable provider gives you NASA TV feeds (they usually glom onto an existing public access or education channel), set your VCR. It’ll be a hoot to watch a shuttle launch from that point of view.
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