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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 ck2 »

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.

if you haven't seen the footage from someone in a passenger jet nearby, it rocks

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1sagcc1

https://v.redd.it/l11tehzzvrsg1/CMAF_720.mp4

Think about how much technology evolved to create that scene, to fly nearby and being used to take that video, wow

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

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Post by dawnerd »

jascenso wrote: post #59

260 Mbps for 4K seems to be awfully a lot for a single stream. Really makes me wonder what has been used for compression ...

Almost for sure would be multiple camera feeds. But also wouldn’t be unreasonable to have a bitrate that high. I had a Sony camera that did 100mbps and that was just a prosumer camera.

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Post by merrychristmas1 »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #44
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.

They missed it pulling off the pad, they then had a picture of the plume, the wide shot off the pad was quite a bit too late also, then they missed the separation of the boosters and the upper stage separation. Honestly it looks like they intentionally missed every high risk procedure intentionally and cut back a few seconds after it had succeeded.You don't make this many mistakes one after the other accidentally, it…

No, after talking to NASA people, this is just incompetence.

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

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Post by BenjiWiebe »

ck2 wrote: post #64

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

2.2-2.7 seconds of delay due to light speed alone (so maybe a few ms more for electronics and en/decoding).

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

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Post by the_af »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #44
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.

They missed it pulling off the pad, they then had a picture of the plume, the wide shot off the pad was quite a bit too late also, then they missed the separation of the boosters and the upper stage separation. Honestly it looks like they intentionally missed every high risk procedure intentionally and cut back a few seconds after it had succeeded.You don't make this many mistakes one after the other accidentally, it…

Agreed. There was high quality alternative streaming from other sources, how come NASA couldn't get their shit together? The spectacle is important for public support!

I still don't understand why they didn't show the final 10 seconds countdown, basically the most iconic moment of any launch. They literally hid the clock! I was hoping to count it down with my family.

If they were scared of accidents they could have streamed it with a delay.

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Post by the_af »

merrychristmas1 wrote: post #74
PaulKeeble wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They missed it pulling off the pad, they then had a picture of the plume, the wide shot off the pad was quite a bit too late also, then they missed the separation of the boosters and the upper stage separation. Honestly it looks like they intentionally missed every high risk procedure intentionally and cut back a few seconds after it had succeeded.You don't make this many mistakes one after the other accidentally, it…

No, after talking to NASA people, this is just incompetence.

How on earth could they skip streaming the final 10 seconds countdown? That's beyond incompetence.

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

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Post by ErroneousBosh »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #20
firesteelrain wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A more accurate claim would be: never-before-seen in real-time at that fidelity from lunar distance.

Real time has to be about the most useless factor here. I don’t care if it’s a year delayed, it’s not like I was going to head up there myself.

It's not even going to be real time anyway, it's delayed a bit less than a couple of seconds ;-)

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Post by realsharkymark »

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.

My first thought is SpaceX and Elon would have done this so much better.

I felt I watching the launch through someone's iPhone.

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