Live - SpaceX to launch Telstar 18v 4:45 UTC 10/09/2018

[Morgen]

https://youtu.be/Apw3xqwsG1U

https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/telstar18vantagepresskit.pdf

Sorry for late notice

[Paul-Simon]

Flawless as usual.

[Zzztops]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2pPgni-2B8

[Resonant]

How they haven't fixed the landing cam issue is beyond me. I wanna see it happen smooth just so the flat earth theorists can sit on their dick and resort to calling it CGI instead.

[Morgen]

There have been a few launches that it's landed without the stream cutting it out. Turns out maintaining an internet connection good enough for a low latency HD video stream is difficult in the middle of the ocean, with a friggin rocket landing on your barge, and multiple storms.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmqLfU6X0AIPgla.jpg:large

[OvB]

Doesn't the feed cut out because the rocket exhaust interrupts the signal.

[gman003-main]

I've always heard it's vibration, the rocket plume shakes the antenna enough that the signal is affected. The plume itself is a radio problem for the rocket but mainly during reentry, not landing IIRC.

In any case, it records it all locally so the engineers can get a nice good look at it afterward, guess they just don't really care enough to make it bulletproof for the livestream.

[Paul-Simon]

Video is transmitted via satellite for live viewing.
The equipment that transmits it can't maintain a solid lock on the satellite during the intense vibrations under landing.

To fix this, you'd need something like a second boat nearby that relays the video - but then again, that's a lot of extra money just for livestream purposes.
As gman003-main says, the video is recorded locally anyways, so it's not like any footage is lost.