sebasWhy don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander?
Go pro in india cost too much so they relie on fake data
To make credible for the edible prople
Comeon thry used crappy projecting softeare to “visualise” their landing !
Will they prop up their flag to mark the territory like the Americans did ?
TonyTonyChopperthey aren’t built for space. There’s zero pressure so the battery might burst. Also electronics need radiation shielding since there’s no atmosphere to protect them.
In the end you just can't shield electronics from particle radiation economically. You need plenty of hydrogen atoms for them to bump into (like a mass of water). Otherwise they will get through and cause bit flips and transmute the elements of critical circuits.
I don’t think go pros are rated for the temperatures reached during takeoff and in space. Also the forces of takeoff and air pressure might cause issues too.
The duct tape will be fine tho.
chemical_cutthroatWe duct tape a Stretch Armstrong to the rockets, and once Sr. Armstrong reaches his limit, he’ll snap back and pull the Earth closer to the moon because there is no gravity in space, thus making future launches cheaper and quicker.
BertramDitoreThat’s science, folks.
SanguineParOr at least folk-science!
Señor Armstrong? I have no idea why I love that so much. It immediately elevates him somehow in my mind. “Introducing Señor Aureliano (Stretch) Brazo-Fuerte!”
This being from a physics book written by Chuck Norris
morgan423Sounds like the recipe to gain a Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask moon to me.
Did you know that every Apollo mission carried multiple rolls of ordinary duct tape with them.
It was used occasionally to fix broken things like the Apollo 17 moonbuggy.
I also wonder what bandwidth you have available to stream the videofeed back to earth.
Afaik The original Apollo 11 used some low res, low fps tv format that had to be converted on earth, because they didn’t have enough bandwidth to stream full tv resolution at the time.
Oh I know this one, the Apollo 11 cameras were 320 scan lines at 10fps with an optional high res setting of like 1280 scan lines at 0.625 fps. Not sure on the second setting but the first one I’m positive about.
marsokodThey are rated for the temperatures, if you use the right duct tape. We flew one here: m.dpreview.com/…/nanoavionics-captures-first-4k-r…
There are less guarantees regarding life time die to radiations, but they are surprisingly good on this and the one in the link still work to this day (525km orbit)
DocMcStuffinElectronics have to be designed for use in outer space. That includes hardening from radiation. Adding redundancy because there will be glitches and failures due to bit flips. Using components that can operate in a vacuum. There’s thermal considerations, both extreme heat and cold. You also need filters in the optics to protect the image sensor.
You can totally put a GoPro in space. It’s just not going to last very long before it fails.
Bit flips are a fun thing to learn about. I encourage anyone that doesn’t know what it is to just look it up on you tube or whatever.
atocciAnd after that I encourage those same people to look up the history of Mario 64 speed running.
That’s good to learn to. All you guys do is press A 1.5x
saplyngBut flips occur when a posse of electrons loses an intimidation check to the sun.
I find this hilarious.
Is that the same as skin cancer?
Peruvian_SkiesPretty much.
Skin cancer is the sun convinces a cell to go with their totallynotapyramidscheme MLM; the cell, in turn, convinces other cells to join their pyram- I mean MLM.
Regression is when the MLM slips up and the cell police finally have enough evidence to take it down for the pyramid scheme it is.
tetraodon
The Universe is Hostile to Computers
HamartiogonicAlso the CPU wouldn’t work reliably in those conditions. The kinds of CPUs we do send to space have been tested rigorously and they are also many generations behind the ones we use here on earth. If you made a space worthy GoPro, it might not be very small, light or cheap. Also, 1080p at 60 fps might be a bit too much for that grandpa chip.
Space is super hard for humans, but we’re not alone in that, because it’s also surprisingly hard for electrics to survive up there.
MugmoorThis is a great question, with great answers. Who needs AskScience?!
Not sure about India, but NASA has used GoPros on Moon-related stuff. Artemis I had 4 GoPros on the ends of its solar panels when it orbited the Moon last year.
BeigeAgenda- heavily modified GoPros, for them to pass the space rating.
Why would they use GoPro to begin? Certainly using off the shelf items makes sense but doesn’t a go pro require you to retrieve the camera to view the video? How do you turn it on or off and wouldn’t the battery just run out?
I am also stumped, I think the main reason must be PR, because NASA engineers wrote the book about how to get CCD’s to work in space.
My guess is that they said “Hey lets get some PR by making GoPro space rated” while the “real” engineers build the proper spacecraft, and that’s why the cameras are placed on the solar panels as far away from the crew as possible.
Because NASAs shit will work on the moon and look okay while doing it?
kinttachNASA does this. Looking at the metadata from last year’s moon orbiter photos (like this one), it was shot on a GoPro HERO4 Black. Here NASA scientists talk about the cameras on that mission.
