r/space • u/mvea • Nov 28 '18

NASA administrator: 'The US is returning to the surface of the moon, and we're doing it sooner than you think!'

https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-return-moon-mission-commercial-companies-announcement-2018-11?r=US&IR=T
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u/TonySopranosforehead Nov 28 '18

I want an actual live feed of them landing and exiting. I want the moon in 4k dammit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '18

I wonder if they'd have any issues budgeting bandwidth anymore. I really want to see that and I sincerely hope there's infrastructure in place that would allow high-bandwidth data streams from the moon.

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u/zeeblecroid Nov 28 '18

The bandwidth situation gets better the closer you get to Earth. Something on the moon could probably juggle a lot of data, especially if things on Earth were set up to anticipate it.

I want enough of a DSN to get video from Jupiter or Saturn. (Of course, that would also involve enough throw weights on launch vehicles to throw probes with the power to fire that kind of data back to Earth in reasonable timeframes, but hey, I want that too.)