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"Awaiting Vehicle Downlink" is that a cute way of saying buffering? Because the flight control audio and mission clock disappear when that pops up.
by ericcumbee 13y ago
"Awaiting Vehicle Downlink" is that a cute way of saying buffering? Because the flight control audio and mission clock disappear when that pops up.
- eksith 13y agoNope. That just means, they totally lost video down. I'm guessing they're dedicating a more robust connection for actual telemetry. To be fair, the video is mostly eyecandy. The actual meat is sensor data.
- ericcumbee 13y agoWell aware of that. But given the fact that the Mission Clock and Flight Control audio were disappearing as well.
- eksith 13y agoThat just means whoever does the video merge for the live stream decided (inconsistently) that the video downlink should coincide with control room chatter... cut out and all.
- jlgreco 13y agoIt seems that sometimes flight control audio cuts when that happens, sometimes it doesn't.
- ericcumbee 13y agoIt only did that the first couple times.
- nknighthb 13y agoAt a guess, two different failure modes. One the "ground server problems" case, and one the "I wish we could hang a giant directional antenna off the side of the rocket" case.