I can't get Netflix to run smoothly in my house — but NASA just sent a 4K video stream from the Moon, thanks…
- 25 million viewers watch the first-ever 4K livestream beamed from the Moon
- 260Mbps transfer speeds send video more than 250,000 miles
- AWS GovCloud has an important role in NASA simulations
Amazon Web Services – the biggest cloud hyperscaler with a market share equaling the combined share of both Microsoft and Google – just helped to enable the first-ever like 4K video stream from the Moon.
The company transmitted video footage from the Orion spacecraft by laser, with an estimated 25 million people watching the coverage across NASA+, YouTube and Amazon’s own Prime Video platform.
Not only is this the first time 4K video has ever been transmitted from the Moon to Earth, but it’s also major news for video transmission by laser optics instead of conventional radio.
AWS enabled 260Mbps transfer speeds via laser
Key to supporting the video transmission was NASA’s Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System (O2O) –...
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