I was watching a clip of the astronaut Sunita Williams talk about how grateful she is to be stuck in space, anyway I noticed the camera quality is like a video from the early 2000s? Does this have to do with radiation in space interfering with the camera, or is it just that they likely have old equipment?
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[Here is the clip for reference](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFNFJXV8/)
Probably a combination of the following: Equipment is old, bandwidth is limited, and it’s probably been re-endcoded a few times.
Limitations on video quality generally aren’t related to lack of technology for filming but lack of technology for transferring the amount of data. They have to deliberately compress the video data, causing it to lose some of its information (or quality), in order to end up with a data file that is feasible to transfer via the slower speeds of satellite.
If, for example, they instead recorded the video on to a physical medium like a hard drive and physically brought it back, they could afford to record in much higher quality.
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It’s actually a combination of factors. Radiation can definitely cause interference with the cameras, but also the equipment used by astronauts is often older and not updated as frequently as technology on Earth. Additionally, the cameras are designed to withstand the harsh conditions of space, so sacrificing some image quality is often necessary for durability.
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