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by tharkun__ 68 days ago
Hah! Funny how everyone here seems to be thinking the same: They said something about "finally 4k moon rocket images" and the stuff we got in the news was like blurry 800x600 type with lots of JPEG artifacts and such.

Even the smallest resolution images I see in the link that the parent edited into their comment have better quality than what news outlets posted.

I want TIFFs that takes ages to download and I need to scroll around in/zoom out on!
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dylan604 68 days ago
They will be posted when they get them. Right now, NASA doesn't have them because they're still on the SD cards in the capsule (probably been copied to their PCDs too). There's not a lot of bandwidth to be pushing large RAW files. They have to share the bandwidth with all of the telemetry and comms. They sent some small files down just to make some PR announcements and tease what will be coming.
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adrianpike 68 days ago
There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/

Maybe it's not operating as described yet?

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adrian_b 68 days ago
It is operating only when it can be pointed towards Earth, while also avoiding the Sun, which did not happen during the flyby.

The laser is on one side of Orion, and when that side is not oriented towards Earth for various reasons, the optical communications cannot be used.

For continuous communications, at least when there is no interposed body, like the Moon, multiple lasers located around Orion would be needed to ensure coverage. When by the far side of the Moon, a relay orbiting around the Moon would be needed.

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consp 68 days ago
Doesn't that require line of sight with limited receivers available? Maybe the current positioning is preventing it until the constellation changes. With the constellation that is the craft in respect to the two ground stations in a narrow patch of the US. I could not find anything about throughput rates except for the theoretical maximum but I also suspect that max is only in LEO.
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em-bee 68 days ago
i heard mention of 100 megabit. they downloaded 50GB of data the night after the flyby. they probably keep downloading as much as they can. and they still need to sift through all that to find the pictures worth publishing. they could do a data dump, but that's not interesting for the general public. the stuff is coming. slowly.
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cruffle_duffle 68 days ago
Coming soon to the moon near you: starlink!
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