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I struggled to find a good video of the landing. This is a clip from their live stream: https://youtu.be/xHlPwTE-FOo https://youtu.be/xHlPwTE-FOo It seems like

by varenc 1y ago

I struggled to find a good video of the landing. This is a clip from their live stream: https://youtu.be/xHlPwTE-FOo https://youtu.be/xHlPwTE-FOo It seems like multiple video feeds glitch out right as it's about to land. There's even a black screen saying "buffering..." encoded into the video. Still early days though, and I'm sure they're working to improve, but they're missing a huge opportunity here by not having high-quality footage like SpaceX. For comparison, here's a great clip of SpaceX's Starship landing: https://youtu.be/Hkq3F5SaunM https://youtu.be/Hkq3F5SaunM

RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
SpaceX's landing footage has only been decent for the past few years. If I recall, they were able to fix it once Starlink reached a reasonable level of performance. Before that, their sea landings looked about the same as this BO one. The cause seems to be the heat from the landing burn messing with normal wireless signals.
- cubefox 1y ago
  The "buffering" message looks like they are using the wrong streaming technology though. They should use a fault tolerant real-time video codec, transmitted via UDP, which produces glitches during brief interruptions but not complete aborts with a "buffering" message.
daemonologist 1y ago
Yeah I haven't seen a really good/stable video of the landing; there's slightly better footage a bit later when they replay it though: https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1I?si=V2kfTlvUA2PuZP39&t=6938 https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1I?si=V2kfTlvUA2PuZP39... Back in the day SpaceX used to struggle with this during drone ship landings as well. All the vibration and heat and whatnot is rough on the transmission. Usually they'd upload better (stored) footage a couple days after the fact, and I'd expect something similar from Blue Origin. Today's airborne tracking shot (from downrange) all the way from space to the clouds was amazing though. Never seen anything like that before.

by varenc 1y ago

RattlesnakeJake 1y ago

SpaceX's landing footage has only been decent for the past few years. If I recall, they were able to fix it once Starlink reached a reasonable level of performance. Before that, their sea landings looked about the same as this BO one. The cause seems to be the heat from the landing burn messing with normal wireless signals.

cubefox 1y ago
The "buffering" message looks like they are using the wrong streaming technology though. They should use a fault tolerant real-time video codec, transmitted via UDP, which produces glitches during brief interruptions but not complete aborts with a "buffering" message.

daemonologist 1y ago

Yeah I haven't seen a really good/stable video of the landing; there's slightly better footage a bit later when they replay it though: https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1I?si=V2kfTlvUA2PuZP39&t=6938 https://www.youtube.com/live/ecfxcTEl-1I?si=V2kfTlvUA2PuZP39... Back in the day SpaceX used to struggle with this during drone ship landings as well. All the vibration and heat and whatnot is rough on the transmission. Usually they'd upload better (stored) footage a couple days after the fact, and I'd expect something similar from Blue Origin. Today's airborne tracking shot (from downrange) all the way from space to the clouds was amazing though. Never seen anything like that before.