Houston, we have a podcast. Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center,

episode 294, The Moon in 4K. I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts,

all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight and more.

The Artemis One mission once again reignited humanity's imagination as Orion was able to share

views of the moon and earth as it conducted the historic test flight. The imagery we saw from

Orion was absolutely fascinating, but it really pushed the limits of Orion and the bandwidth

capabilities of the deep space network to deliver it from Orion back to earth. This is the future,

though. We want 4K, we want UHD, but with constrained data rates in deep space, how do we get there?

Luckily, we have smart people at NASA tackling this problem. The solution to 4K imagery is just as

cool as the imagery itself, lasers. So to walk us through how we plan to test a laser communication

system called optical to Orion or O2O on the upcoming Artemis 2 mission, we have Steve Horowitz,

the O2O project manager. Set phasers to UHD, sit back and enjoy learning about the future of deep

space imagery from Steve Horowitz. Enjoy.

Steve Horowitz, my hero. Thank you so much for coming on Houston. We have a podcast.

It is my pleasure to be here. Thank you.

I'll tell you what, in the world of public affairs, I think a lot of the feedback we get and a lot

of the things that we're planning for is how do we make Artemis look better to the public?

I know there's these challenges with data rates and higher quality streaming when we get

these incredible distances like to the moon. But what you're working on is so precious to us here

in public affairs that I am just... I can't tell you how excited I am to be talking with you, Steve.

It's got to be just such a fun thing to work on. It really is. And it's been an exciting time

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