Mark McCaughreanAnd some nice video from the Ariane 6 upper stage showing some of the 17 payloads being deployed, including experiments from students, industry, & space agencies 👍
Holger Dittmann@markmccaughrean According to some comments on YouTube that’s nothing compared to the 4K stream from SpaceX‘s Starship.
Personally I prefer accurate telemetry, frequent mentions of the word „nominal“ and getting actual payload into orbit but then again I am more into science and engineering than into marketing.
@HolgerTDittmann Sure. As you say, there are very different priorities at work here, & pleasing a bunch of fanboy cultists tweeting from their basements is fairly low on Arianespace’s list.
I mean, there’s nothing fundamentally difficult about putting HD, 4K, or 8K cameras on a rocket & getting signals back. It’s a matter of asking what’s necessary to complete the mission. That may include PR, of course, but is it Job One?