It was really hard to get the early spacecraft to not spin uncontrollably, so even short exposures look blurry.
Yes, a bit of a letdown but it was 7 years before the next 3, and shortly after Vanguard 2, the first SSTV scanner camera in space, which failed to align to its target latitude of 40°N to 50°N so I couldn’t find any images - presumably only incoherent lines of image data were received that could not be assembled into a 2D picture. Getting SSTV to work was so difficult that they used to make weather and recon satellites single-use: wind film into a shielded box and deorbit.
That first photo is shit lol
How many photos have you taken from space?
I think the disclaimer was op acknowledging that it looks like shit
It was really hard to get the early spacecraft to not spin uncontrollably, so even short exposures look blurry.
Yes, a bit of a letdown but it was 7 years before the next 3, and shortly after Vanguard 2, the first SSTV scanner camera in space, which failed to align to its target latitude of 40°N to 50°N so I couldn’t find any images - presumably only incoherent lines of image data were received that could not be assembled into a 2D picture. Getting SSTV to work was so difficult that they used to make weather and recon satellites single-use: wind film into a shielded box and deorbit.