Comcast’s Xfinity announced it is collaborating with MIT Media Lab to bring live footage, real-time photos, and educational resources from MIT’s historic lunar mission online at www.tothemoontostay.org and into the homes of viewers across the country through a one-of-a-kind viewing experience available on Xfinity X1. The website and the X1 destination will constantly be updated with new content throughout the length of MIT’s mission. Xfinity X1 customers can find the destination by saying “to the moon” into their voice remote.
Live streams of key mission components will be streamed throughout March, including the March 6 landing. If conditions permit, first-of-its-kind photos of an Earth eclipse will also be aired, when the Earth blocks the sun, taken from the surface of the Moon. They will also deliver photos and videos of the lunar surface transmitted to mission control and then to homes across the globe from a 3D depth camera mounted to the main rover. In the coming months, Comcast plans to expand the reach of its “To the Moon” experience by making it available across all its entertainment platforms, including Sky Glass, Sky Stream, and Xumo devices.
Julianne Heinzmann, Senior Software Engineer, Comcast
Comcast has been a proud member of MIT Media Labs for almost 20 years, and we’re honored to be working with them to help bring the Moon mission to viewers across the globe through the new website as well as into the homes of our Xfinity customers through X1. The destination we’ve built for the lunar mission will bring people closer to this impactful moment, providing an interactive and immersive experience we can deliver through our own technology platform, and on the web to viewers around the world.
Ariel Ekblaw, Lunar Mission Principal Investigator, MIT
Our return to the Moon is not just about advancing technology, it’s about inspiring the next generation of explorers who are alive today and will travel to the Moon in their lifetime. By working with Xfinity to bring the amazing images and videos we collect at the lunar surface to people across the globe, we’re making it easy for everyone to experience the Moon in ways they never have before.