05-01-2014, 12:59 PM
GGD wrote:
I'm a bit confused about how they got the video, that web page says:
Below is a look at the original video data from the first stage landing, recovered from the Falcon 9 onboard camera and shot right before splashdown:
But I though it sank and was not recovered, so where did the video come from? Was it transmitted to something else? What I really trying to understand is how the video got corrupted. Did the storage media get corrupted, did the video signal get corrupted before it could be stored, etc.
The video was transmitted live and recorded remotely, not physically "recovered." The received data was poor (corrupted.)
Given that this was a camera mounted on a rocket's first stage, and had literally been through extreme conditions, it's not surprising that it might have developed problems.