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I watched the launch.
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Why the fuck does your space agency shoot worse video of a historic event then a YouTube channel celebrating 100K subscribers.
Cutting to the crowd at the moment of booster separation was peak live event directing.
My understanding was that it was a risky moment, they didn't want to risk showing astronautes dying... But that doesn't make sense since the same logic applies to most of the launch!
My headcanon backstory for whoever made that decision is that they got kicked out of the porn industry for only showing the guys' faces
I can't get into details but I worked at a company that does video broadcast equipment and worked with NASA helping them update some systems. It was mostly garbage equipment. The company I worked for is the harley davidson of broadcasting equipment; was good in the past but modern competitors are objectively better but the brand recognition is still there from the old days.
You try getting video from something that, within 30 minutes, accelerates to 18000 MPH. Literally, it will change what frequencies you even have to listen to, let alone the crazy amount of interference experienced during the process of exiting thr atmosphere.
Literally, the air compressing and ignighting against the shell of the space craft itself will produce crazy signals, let alone every other effect.
There is a reason it took even SpaceX over a decade to keep signals remotely intelligable with their booster recoveries, let alone launches aimed directly at the moon.
That's true but it doesn't explain the black screen at liftoff and cutting to spectators during the booster separation.
I was shouting at my screen when they cut away for the booster separation. Then they fucked up the next separation too.
They can sell it as premium footage at a later date!