Olga N 📽️
Mark McCaughreanDespite my many concerns & reservations, I can’t deny that this is a very cool image.
See? That’s how they get you 🤷♂️😬
F4GRX Sébastien@markmccaughrean it was a very nice staging sequence indeed.
Dr. Ferrous@markmccaughrean amazing image! Also, I’m in awe of that vehicle. Truly.
Leanne J@markmccaughrean We both said “woah” when we saw that shot. Very cool.
@LDJ I happy I managed to screengrab it before they changed shot. Overall the direction was pretty awful though, including missing SRB separation 🤷♂️🙄
Simplicator@markmccaughrean @LDJ Indeed I was like “how can you cut away from that!” They blanked on half the liftoff too, ridiculous
@Simplicator @LDJ It’s not like they haven’t had years to practice & rehearse. Same with the JWST first images, mind you: the NASA part was shambolic, while our bit from ESOC was immaculate 😎
@markmccaughrean Oh dang, you can see the nozzle extension still retracted, before it drops down, very cool.
Was surprised at the slow stage separation differential speed. Guess it suffices tho. It sure got off the pad in a hurry!
Was surprised at the slow stage separation differential speed. Guess it suffices tho. It sure got off the pad in a hurry!
Bodhipaksa@markmccaughrean My god, it's full of stars!
Aaron David@markmccaughrean The camera operator was useless
Birchbirch@markmccaughrean Today, we get that video as it happens. Back in the Apollo days, they had to configure the means of ejecting the film from the spent stage, then retrieving it, before it could be used to support the PR of the actual missions.
@birchbirch True, but I hope they have a way of getting back higher quality footage as well: the downside of real-time video from a very rapidly moving vehicle like that is low data rates & lots of compression. The quality of the stream was pretty poor at times (although of course still stunning).
@markmccaughrean As long as they're not trying to send it via RFC 1149 I'm not too worried! ;-)
(But yes, I hope that 4K versions can be retrieved)
Josh 
@markmccaughrean @TechBean that shot was definitely the best of the entire launch
@markmccaughrean @TechBean I was really hoping we’d get to see the solar arrays deploy, or really any live shots after MECO. Though I guess they’re at a higher orbit than the launches we typically see.
Say what you will about SpaceX, their launch broadcasts are well produced, and the shots of the Starlink satellites deploying are really cool to watch.
I was kind of hoping we’d get a sideways comment about WHY there were so many more objects interrupting the launch window than Artemis I, though. Perfect spot for an angry goose meme: who put them there?!
@josh0 @TechBean Missing the actual moments of SRB separation & MECO was just criminally poor direction, to be honest, but I assume the full footage from each camera will be available later.
And IIRC, one or more of the European solar wings have cameras on the end, so it could perhaps be possible to stream deployment from their perspective as well as from the ESM itself.
As for endless cheap wifi routers flying overhead, quite – fast forward a few more years and …
oscarfalcon@josh0 @markmccaughrean @TechBean
"Say what you will about SpaceX, their launch broadcasts are well produced, and the shots of the Starlink satellites deploying are really cool to watch." I was saying this exact thing to my brother today after the glitchy shots and "crowd shots" filler but yeah, a bit of more production on this would have been fantastic to have.
@oscarfalcon @markmccaughrean @TechBean what really sucks is that I’ve actually worked with NASA on some of their publicity stuff in the past, and its definitely not the people at the agent who are holding any of this back from being awesome.
grrl_aex$4B per launch.
$55B project cost so far.
Cassini project total cost: $4B.
Yeeting people anywhere outside earth orbit is a waste of science funds. Space is where robotics is clearly the optimal way to conduct science concerning extraterrestrial bodies, based on any metric.
This, otoh, is just publicly subsidized prep for billionaire "moon base" fantasies. If that sounds absurd, well... it's because billionaires (and *their* gov't) are exactly that these days.