4 The moon rover cost 38M, that'd be like 328M these days. That upside-down umbrella, was supposedly a high-gain antenna that would communicate to earth. So you just point it at the earth and they'd for sure get that signal. ok. They'd transmit TV with it and would have to park. Seems sketchy. (media.scored.co) posted 199 days ago by newfunturistic 199 days ago by newfunturistic +6 / -2 26 comments share 26 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I installed a DirecTV dish way back in the 90's and getting it aligned was an enormous pain in the ass. You couldn't be off by the tiniest amount.
And that was just to geosynchronous orbit at 22,300 miles. The Moon is ten times farther.
You do understand that the command module was a lot closer and acted as a relay, right?
So it also tracked the extremely low-orbit CM? Oooooookaaaayyyy.
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