Comment by danpalmer
2 days ago
It took SpaceX about 1-2 years to nail landings on the drone ships, and about 3-4 to nail video feeds of that happening. There’s something kinda funny about that.
2 days ago
It took SpaceX about 1-2 years to nail landings on the drone ships, and about 3-4 to nail video feeds of that happening. There’s something kinda funny about that.
Nothing funny about it. How would you get the signal out? Plasma from re-entry is a near-perfect radio shield. We only get nice crisp images from starship now because of Starlink.
Remember all the old Apollo and even Shuttle missions where the Mission Control would be calling out "____, do you read me" during a landing attempt? This is why.
I know why, but it's funny because connectivity is essentially a solved issue in the modern world (most people don't sit under landing rockets), whereas rocket science is... well, ... rocket science.
And now they use Starlink for their video feeds.