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  • xattt
    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.
  • SoftTalker
    > 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"
  • bnchrch
    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.
  • 1970-01-01
    The Alan Parsons Project is going 4K?
  • saltybytes
    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?
  • runnr_az
    How accurate does the laser have to be to hit the base station?
  • vibe42
    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 !
  • Cider9986
    > "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.
  • Gagarin1917
    Why does the article keep mentioning footage “from the surface of the moon”?
  • egberts1
    Still want to know what happened in first 10 second of launch, why were the videos fuzzy and cutting out (at least twice)????
  • jascenso
    260 Mbps for 4K seems to be awfully a lot for a single stream. Really makes me wonder what has been used for compression ...
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  • danny_codes
    Hopefully it’s not cloudy
  • brcmthrowaway
    How does laser communication work with a moving object with 9DoF?!
  • ck2
    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
  • ethanmacavoy
    the writeup is helpful but i'd want to see how it handles edge cases
  • yardie
    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.
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