Thanks for that link.
I'll believe 4K transmissions from the Moon when I see it.
Lasers have obvious problems like cloudy skies and daytime conditions
swamping the light.
Evan Ackerman, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Spectrum magazine web site, reports on the stuff flying aboard Artemis 1
Watched the live feed last night on the NASA YouTube channel. I'll never forget watching the small blue disc of the earth being occulted by the limb of the moon in real time.
That's a pretty awesome selfie by any standard. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the mission brings. Hopefully all will go off according to plan. Then the real work - putting people back on the moon, and into space - can begin again.
Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft exited its Distant Retrograde Orbit on Friday (AEDT), conducted a course correction burn and is shortly (on Monday) to swing by the moon at an altitude of 79 miles on its way back to Earth. Splashdown is expected on 11 Dec.
I enjoyed watching and listening to the Re entry stage where Orion would perform a shallow dive into the upper atmosphere and back out again into space to shed huge amounts of energy and velocity ( similar to the Apollo CM re entry ) but perform it twice at a tighter angle.
This Orion double skip and plunge manoeuvre was probably physically possible during Apollo but way too risky as technology at the time could not simulate a safe outcome.
With today’s technology Orion performed this manoeuvre safely and flawlessly and instead of subjecting future crews to Apollo’s punishing 6 to 8G’s the Orion crews will max out at just under 4G’s
