- This in particular warmed my grumpy heart after the best footage of the launch came from a commercial airliners windows.
I had assumed they would've had a better plan to film the entire departure from orbit yesterday.
I'm at least happy they have one for the loop around the moon.
by SoftTalker
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- > never-before-seen views of “the far side of the Moon“
I guess not counting all the prior "views" that have been recorded since the Apollo missions, including Chinese orbiters which (according to Wikipedia) "scanned the entire Moon in unprecedented detail, generating a high definition 3D map that would provide a reference for future soft landings"
- NASA's rendering of the flyby:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005500/a005536/a2_fly...
Hope we get to see something like this in 4K !
- Hopefully, the footage is better than the missed pan up at lift-off, and showing spectators at the time of booster separation.
I understand funding cuts and all, but this is a once-in-a-generation moment and it’s filmed with no apparent effort whatsoever.
by screenshotapi
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- This is amazing. This is a slow burn but live view from Orion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwfNBtepa4
by saltybytes
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- Forgive my bluntness asking this question: how hard can it be to put a stationary "satellite" as a communication relay next to the moon to bridge the "dark window" with the space craft?
by Gagarin1917
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- Why does the article keep mentioning footage “from the surface of the moon”?
by Cider9986
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- > "will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps..."
> "will be used to beam 4K moon footage at up to 260 Mbps."
> "Data rates of 260 Mbps can be achieved..."
I wonder what size stream will be available to us. The largest I see in general is 70-90 Mbps for a 4k Bluray Remux and that includes lossless audio. I imagine they would want as much data as possible—significantly more than would be visible to the human eye.
- With all of the big deal being made about viewing the far side of the moon, you would think they would have performed the mission when the moon is _new_ so the far side would be illuminated...
- Artemis II live location: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/
- A reminder that the illegal DOGE took a chainsaw to NASA personnel last year. If you're disappointed that the feed update wasn't as polished as a SpaceX launch it's because the later has an actual communications and marketing department with a budget.
- Still want to know what happened in first 10 second of launch, why were the videos fuzzy and cutting out (at least twice)????
- 260 Mbps for 4K seems to be awfully a lot for a single stream. Really makes me wonder what has been used for compression ...
by 1970-01-01
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- The Alan Parsons Project is going 4K?
- How accurate does the laser have to be to hit the base station?
by ethanmacavoy
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- the writeup is helpful but i'd want to see how it handles edge cases
by danny_codes
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- Hopefully it’s not cloudy
by brcmthrowaway
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- How does laser communication work with a moving object with 9DoF?!
- Didn't Nokia put a 4G cell node up there?
Who is going to be the first to make a smartphone call from the moon?
Lag won't be too bad, just 1.5 seconds or less
by scottburgess33
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- What a cluster fuck 8-/
This is how we spend billions of $ and accomplish, nothing.
But, at least we'll have 4K, hi-res, laser beam, video of accomplishing nothing.
And, we can all look forward to spending even more billions to do nothing on Mars!
WTF?!
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