Why don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander?
Why don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander?
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.
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.
They 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)