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Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] pageflight@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

Found another description from NASA, but I'd like to read more details. Is it encrypted, or can anyone with an IR telescope and demodulator listen in? What's the uplink speed?

[-] Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Pretty sure that it will be encrypted.

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