Why don't we strap a GoPro to the moon lander?

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• DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Electronics have to be designed for use in outer space. That includes hardening from radiation. Adding redundancy because there will be glitches and failures due to bit flips. Using components that can operate in a vacuum. There’s thermal considerations, both extreme heat and cold. You also need filters in the optics to protect the image sensor.

  You can totally put a GoPro in space. It’s just not going to last very long before it fails.

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  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bit flips are a fun thing to learn about. I encourage anyone that doesn’t know what it is to just look it up on you tube or whatever.

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    • atocci@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And after that I encourage those same people to look up the history of Mario 64 speed running.

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    • saplyng@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But flips occur when a posse of electrons loses an intimidation check to the sun.

      I find this hilarious.

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    • tetraodon@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8

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  • dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thermal considerations, both extreme heat and cold.

    Can electronics dissipate a significant amount of heat in a vacuum? Obviously they will lose a small amount of heat to radiation, but here on Earth, our electronics dissipate the majority of the heat by making contact with air. This is by either using a fan to force air through the metal fins of a heat sink, or by passively letting the air touching the device carry heat away.

    So how do electronics in space dissipate heat? A heat sink can only hold so much heat before it gets full.

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    • HeyHo@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Transferring heat to a part outside the system that is optimised to emit thermal radiation

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    • Inductor@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They have radiators to dissipate heat. And all the required systems to make that work like coolant pumps, as well as heat sinks (or the coolant fluid is the heat sink).

      But they also have heaters, to make sure that (especially the batteries) don’t freeze. Satellites hang in a delicate balance between freezing and overheating.

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  • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also the CPU wouldn’t work reliably in those conditions. The kinds of CPUs we do send to space have been tested rigorously and they are also many generations behind the ones we use here on earth. If you made a space worthy GoPro, it might not be very small, light or cheap. Also, 1080p at 60 fps might be a bit too much for that grandpa chip.

    Space is super hard for humans, but we’re not alone in that, because it’s also surprisingly hard for electrics to survive up there.

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• Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Did… Did you think the moon lander doesn’t already have cameras?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Those cameras are too good. I wanna see the moon as if it was filmed by a tiktok user.

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  • RGB3x3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This space launch sponsored by… GoPro and Redbull

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• kinttach@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NASA does this. Looking at the metadata from last year’s moon orbiter photos (like this one), it was shot on a GoPro HERO4 Black. Here NASA scientists talk about the cameras on that mission.

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• BlinkAndItsGone@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not sure about India, but NASA has used GoPros on Moon-related stuff. Artemis I had 4 GoPros on the ends of its solar panels when it orbited the Moon last year.

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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • heavily modified GoPros, for them to pass the space rating.

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    • Zippy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would they use GoPro to begin? Certainly using off the shelf items makes sense but doesn’t a go pro require you to retrieve the camera to view the video? How do you turn it on or off and wouldn’t the battery just run out?

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• TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they aren’t built for space. There’s zero pressure so the battery might burst. Also electronics need radiation shielding since there’s no atmosphere to protect them.

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• cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because NASAs shit will work on the moon and look okay while doing it?

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• Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is a great question, with great answers. Who needs AskScience?!

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• coco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Go pro in india cost too much so they relie on fake data

  To make credible for the edible prople

  Comeon thry used crappy projecting softeare to “visualise” their landing !

  Will they prop up their flag to mark the territory like the Americans did ?

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ‘edible prople’ ? …

    WTF, you having a stroke there?

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    • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apparently some 1.5L bottles of “uuhiskey” come with a lemmy.world login attached.

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