NASA to launch its own streaming service this year

NASA has announced that it plans to launch its streaming service later this year called NASA+, which will be ad-free, cost-free and feature live coverage of future launches, documentaries and new original series.

NASA’s associate administrator of communications, Marc Etkind, said in a statement, "We’re putting space on demand and at your fingertips with NASA’s new streaming platform.

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.”

The channel will be available via the NASA app on iOS and Android, for mobiles, tablets and streaming services like Fire TV and AppleTV. NASA+ will also be accessible through a web browser using the agency's website.

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The agency had been using NASA TV for its video content and launch streams which has a 24/7 slate of content on both the NASA site and YouTube.

NASA CIO Jeff Seaton has expressed his ambitions on modernising the agency's website and streamlining how the public engages with its content online so that NASA is more accessible, discoverable and secure.