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Ask and ye shall receive....a stabilized version of the link

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Here you are: https://twitter.com/fallingstarIfA/status/157458352973167002...

From ATLAS (Hawaii). South Africa also got a video already

me too... there was a second craft that was supposed to observe and report back, wasn't there? I didn't see it talking to the deep space network afterwards.

Yes, an Italian cube sat called LICIACube.

It will start broadcasting its data a little before midnight Eastern, though it might be months before everything is transferred. Because it is a cube sat (only 14 kg) the transmitters are not very powerful so I believe the transmission rate is low.

In general, does anyone know what protocol they're using to transfer large amounts of data back to earth? I'm wondering especially about error detection and correction.