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Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Re: Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Post by gus_massa »

ssl-3 wrote: post #26
therouwboat wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

maybe they should turn back and do it again

This isn't the last run for this rocket, is it? We'll do it again. And when we do it again, maybe we should pay the dude from Iowa (who has made a career out of things like streaming rocket launches on video) to provide his team's shots and editing for the official live feed when launch time comes up.

Remember to post the link in HN next launch:

something like> It's better to watch the tivestream for DudeFromIowa that usualy has a better coverage than Nasa http://www.youtube.com/whatever .

Re: Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Post by whycome »

xattt wrote: post #2

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.

It’s not rocket science, it’s media production/direction.

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

xattt wrote: post #2

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.

> missed pan up at lift-off

Tilt up. Pan is from side-to-side, and the word comes from "panorama".

Re: Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Post by groby_b »

reaperducer wrote: post #27
piyh wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crazy that a dude from Iowa and his ragtag group of rocket watchers does a better job with launch coverage than NASA. I can't believe they cut away during booster separation. Absolute shit show.

Crazy that a dude from Iowa and his ragtag group of rocket watchers does a better job with launch coverage than NASA. You may not have noticed, but NASA was also launching an actual rocket at the time. Conducting a livestream and conducting a livestream while launching a rocket to the other side of the moon are hardly equivalent. Absolute shit show. You have a remarkably low threshold for "shit show."

Did they also shut down the bathrooms? You know, to focus the mind?

That is the worst possible take. The people launching the rocket and the people filming the launch are not actually the same people, nor do they take the same resources.

> You have a remarkably low threshold for "shit show."

I wish more people did. We certainly have an excess supply of shit shows these days.

Re: Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Post by meatloaf_man »

trompetenaccoun wrote: post #42
xattt wrote: post #2

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.

Artemis has a budget of over 90 billion dollars, it's more than 4 billion for that Artemis II launch (as estimated by NASA, possibly more because they don't even know exactly how much they're spending). For that price one might reasonably expect a couple of quality cameras for the public to be able to view what their money was spent on. For comparison, a SpaceX ISS resupply mission costs NASA ~$150 million. While tha…

>For comparison, a SpaceX ISS resupply mission costs NASA ~$150 million. While that's a very different rocket and mission, that still doesn't account for a 26x higher price!

With what authority do you say this? Do you have any idea how much closer the ISS is than the moon??

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Post by dawnerd »

ceejayoz wrote: post #15
z33b wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The camera and simulation footage were a bit of a letdown and something SpaceX does much better. On the other hand NASA launches do evoke a feeling of substance over form where science takes precedence over presentation. For that money however I concur - I expected more. Especially the simulation footage where the lack of brightness made it hard to see the vehicle - they might as well have used KSP for it

I suspect this is a frequency thing. Early SpaceX broadcasts were pretty rough. NASA just doesn't do launch coverage with the same sort of cadence. Honestly, they should consider outsourcing that bit.

Was going to say, I think everyone forgot about early SpaceX product quality.

And NASA probably does have great video of it available, it’s just the live broadcast that missed it.

Re: Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps

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Post by groby_b »

beloch wrote: post #60
sbarre wrote: post #10

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Apparently with a gimbal and some fast-moving mirrors. https://www.ll.mit.edu/news/lincoln-laboratory-laser-communi...

It also helps that laser beams diverge. By the time it gets back to Earth, the diameter of the beam from Artemis is probably several hundred meters, if not several kilometres. Their aim still needs to be fairly precise, but they're not trying to hit a lens with a beam that's still the width of a pencil. They really just need to paint the neighbourhood that NASA's sensors are located in.

6 km ([slide show](https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20250009875/downloads/Op...) with data points and the worst slides government agencies were able to create)
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