Mark McCaughreanDespite my many concerns & reservations, I can’t deny that this is a very cool image.
See? That’s how they get you 🤷♂️😬
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)