NASA Is Launching Its Own Streaming Service Later This Year – SlashGear

Rather than a traditional streaming service stocked with standalone entertainment, NASA+ is meant to serve more as a living library of the agency’s achievements, goals, and ongoing research. Through both individual videos and ongoing series, the service will offer information on current pursuits like the research conducted by the Mars probes, as well as the upcoming Artemis moon mission.

“We’re putting space on demand and at your fingertips with NASA’s new streaming platform,” Marc Etkind, associate administrator at NASA HQ’s Office of Communications, said in the platform’s announcement. “Transforming our digital presence will help us better tell the stories of how NASA explores the unknown in air and space, inspires through discovery, and innovates for the benefit of humanity.”

NASA+ will not be a for-profit service — access to the platform and all of its content will be available to all completely free of charge and without ads. The service will be accessible through the existing NASA app on iOS and Android devices, as well as a standalone app that will be available on Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku devices.

NASA is planning on streamlining all of its available informational resources into both its updated website and the NASA+ service to not only make the latest space research available to the general public, but do so in a more accessible way. There’s no set date for the launch of NASA+ yet, with the agency only saying it’ll arrive later this year. In the meantime, we can expect to see frequent updates to the revamped NASA website as it rolls through its beta phase.