Speaking personally, I was born in 1981 — nine years after NASA last went to the Moon.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Linux/116359721225292245
Speaking personally, I was born in 1981 — nine years after NASA last went to the Moon. I grew up hearing about it everywhere: in school, in the media, and from people who had actually seen it happen — long before I existed.
It’s 2026. Fifty-four years have passed since NASA ventured beyond low-Earth orbit, and the live 4K stream looks no better than the upscaled 1972 footage. It’s a huge letdown.
Artemis III has to be better.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Linux/116359721225292245
Speaking personally, I was born in 1981 — nine years after NASA last went to the Moon. I grew up hearing about it everywhere: in school, in the media, and from people who had actually seen it happen — long before I existed.
It’s 2026. Fifty-four years have passed since NASA ventured beyond low-Earth orbit, and the live 4K stream looks no better than the upscaled 1972 footage. It’s a huge letdown.
Artemis III has to be better.
@Linux I suspect the post mission video will be better. There is still a bandwidth limit coming down with the deep space network due to the amount of telemetry required to support human space flight.
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@Linux I suspect the post mission video will be better. There is still a bandwidth limit coming down with the deep space network due to the amount of telemetry required to support human space flight.
NASA needs more than one data link.
Redundancy could be beneficial. Not only would having more than one data link improve broadcasting to the world, but if something were to happen to the primary link, there would be another to fall back on.
I truly believe we can broadcast from the Moon better than we did in 1972, 54 years ago.
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NASA needs more than one data link.
Redundancy could be beneficial. Not only would having more than one data link improve broadcasting to the world, but if something were to happen to the primary link, there would be another to fall back on.
I truly believe we can broadcast from the Moon better than we did in 1972, 54 years ago.
@Linux @RichardNairn AV1 encoded stream at 4K@30 3Mbps VBR would probably take less bandwidth than this early 2000-webcam like mess of a stream we are currently presented with...
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@Linux @RichardNairn AV1 encoded stream at 4K@30 3Mbps VBR would probably take less bandwidth than this early 2000-webcam like mess of a stream we are currently presented with...
Seriously. NASA keeps claiming the images are less than ideal due to a lack of data. They’re also using a GoPro camera.
1) Having additional data links would have been helpful. Redundancy would be better.
2) You’re NASA — you could have done better than a GoPro.
Food for thought for Artemis III in the future.
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NASA needs more than one data link.
Redundancy could be beneficial. Not only would having more than one data link improve broadcasting to the world, but if something were to happen to the primary link, there would be another to fall back on.
I truly believe we can broadcast from the Moon better than we did in 1972, 54 years ago.
@Linux They are using two of four deep space dishes in Canberra.
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@Linux They are using two of four deep space dishes in Canberra.
They need to do better.
I waited 54 years for us to go beyond low-Earth orbit. My whole life, I grew up hearing how great the Moon was and how great NASA was. I defended NASA every time someone said we should defund them. It’s 2026 — 54 years later — we’re finally going back to the Moon, and they’re using a f-cking GoPro.
They need to do better.
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They need to do better.
I waited 54 years for us to go beyond low-Earth orbit. My whole life, I grew up hearing how great the Moon was and how great NASA was. I defended NASA every time someone said we should defund them. It’s 2026 — 54 years later — we’re finally going back to the Moon, and they’re using a f-cking GoPro.
They need to do better.
@Linux They have a 260Mbs link down. Don’t underestimate how much data overall is being streamed back, not just the one camera they are using for broadcast.
