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Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a deep dive into the old Apollo communications, check out the YouTube channel Curiousmarc. His team and him have been working on restoring (and playing around with) old Apollo hardware. They go through a lot of the features and functionality, as well as teardowns, repairs and testing all of it.

https://youtube.com/channel/UC3bosUr3WlKYm4sBaLs-Adw

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 points 1 week ago

The biggest fuckup in archival history was when some NASA goon wiped the original moon landing tapes by mistake.