Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps — one giant step beyond the S-band radio comms of the Apollo era

Great. Just wonderful.
Now even the back of the Moon has a better internet connection than my home town in rural Germany.

NASA’s Artemis II mission blasted off on Wednesday. Now brace yourselves for exciting high-resolution 4K footage live-streamed from the surface of the moon thanks to NASA's laser-based O2O system. The cutting-edge Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system (O2O) will be used to beam 4K moon footage at up to 260 Mbps. We should also be treated to never-before-seen views of “the far side of the Moon, using Nikon digital cameras,” reports The BBC’s Sky at Night magazine…

Found another description from NASA, but I'd like to read more details. Is it encrypted, or can anyone with an IR telescope and demodulator listen in? What's the uplink speed?

This whole situation is like the opening of a sci-fi story where the astronauts transit the far side of the Moon and return to find the Earth a smoking ruin.

Didn't the Apollos use (Hassleblad 70mm 3900x3900) film. This is a downgrade. (but it's streaming, hur, hur). Hopefully there's some better cameras as well.

Holden: “Naomi, open up a tightbeam to Earth…”

For a deep dive into the old Apollo communications, check out the YouTube channel Curiousmarc. His team and him have been working on restoring (and playing around with) old Apollo hardware. They go through a lot of the features and functionality, as well as teardowns, repairs and testing all of it.

https://youtube.com/channel/UC3bosUr3WlKYm4sBaLs-Adw

one giant step

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Does this mean Dota on the moon will have better latency

Yes, but which Instagram/Snapchat filters will they have available in space?