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1224 clicks; posted to STEM » on 04 Dec 2022 at 8:45 AM (16 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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Ambitwistor [TotalFark]
2022-12-04 9:30:27 AM  
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Unsung_Hero: El Borscht: The fact that we are still in touch with the Voyagers weirds me out in a really good way

I feel like even if there's no more science to be gained from it we should spend the money to keep in contact as long as there's a signal coming from them, just because it's such an incredible achievement to have something that far out with the technology available at the time of their launch.

Keeping that connection going is like maintaining a monument to the achievement.


And if we don't contact them, they'll contact us.

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Aviron [TotalFark]
2022-12-04 1:06:47 PM  
4 votes:

Unsung_Hero: El Borscht: The fact that we are still in touch with the Voyagers weirds me out in a really good way

I feel like even if there's no more science to be gained from it we should spend the money to keep in contact as long as there's a signal coming from them, just because it's such an incredible achievement to have something that far out with the technology available at the time of their launch.

Keeping that connection going is like maintaining a monument to the achievement.


Absolutely agree. In fact we should start building that Monument soon, before V'ger comes back for a visit.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2022-12-05 2:13:26 AM  
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some_beer_drinker: [syfy.com image 850x566]


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"D'erp class cruiser approaching, Captain!"
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2022-12-04 4:17:23 PM  
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dbirchall: I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was going to send back so much data that they built their own receiving stations for it, because DSN couldn't given them anywhere near the antenna time they needed without compromising the ability to talk to other missions.

And they used optical, for a higher bit rate (622MBps).  And NASA continues to experiment with optical; their current TBIRD project is intended to do terabit rates from low earth orbit.  We may see a lot more optical downlinks coming.


Need one hell of an ethernet cable
 
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