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After SpaceX, I always expect to see live cams. Of course, that would just add weight and complexity without relevant benefits except the entertainement... but
by woliveirajr 4y ago
After SpaceX, I always expect to see live cams. Of course, that would just add weight and complexity without relevant benefits except the entertainement... but being entertained is fun :-)
- go_elmo 4y agoGetting more publicity and public support and get the science much further in the mid to long term. Its a legitimate consideration to make imo. Were not bound by rocket capacity as much as we are by public support & funding.
- harles 4y agoCertainly helps with their next set of grant proposals.
- felixg3 4y agoI think that proper science communication and marketing is crucial, at the same time, it is very difficult to explain with numbers and graphs, while it is so much easier with multispectral imaging (see the success of Hubble and the Mars images).
- go_elmo 4y agoIt makes absolute sense. Our perception system is a giant Filter. Providing more information to it by emtion-provoking images rather than abstract, low info graphs seems logical to achieve higher retainaince and presence in people
- pfdietz 4y agoLive cam data can be useful in analysis of failures.
- Kye 4y agoWhat can a camera tell you that more sensors couldn't?
- macintux 4y agoI’m not remotely an expert, but cameras have a much larger coverage area than any sensor could. And I assume a sensor can tell you “this piece stopped talking” but a camera in right place could tell you “because it fell off when a screw fell out”, so presumably they’re complementary.
- Diederich 4y agoVideo of the SRB leak just prior to the Challenger disaster was quite useful after the fact.
- pfdietz 4y agoAlso, the video of the foam chunk hitting the Columbia's wing. An early Falcon 1 launch failed because the first stage recontacted the second after staging. You'll note one of the F9 cameras is looking up at the second stage from inside the first stage's interstage section.
- Diederich 4y agoThe Columbia case is a better example than the Challenger case, because they actually caught that right after launch and analyzed it, though incorrectly.
- ncphil 4y agoWell, the analysis at the engineering level was correct. Problem is, the engineers weren't allowed to confirm it. That was a management decision, made on the grounds that, "There's nothing we can do".
- chmod775 4y agoA camera is a sensor.
- Thlom 4y agoProbably doesn't matter much for this one as it is the last Ariane 5 launch (afaik). Maybe they can get cameras on the 6.
- behnamoh 4y agoEntertainment = Money. People will support things that give them a good time. Just look at the Hollywood.
- usrusr 4y agoCertainly a peculiar relationship. Your post made me wonder when the first dogecoin private key will reach escape velocity. Any bets? I think we can agree that the "if" and "who" is already settled...
- nanidin 4y agoAssuming signals move through fiber optic cables at 69% of c, it has already been done. A similar argument could be made for a key being transmitted via radio signal that has slipped out to space.