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Why did they need to wait for confirmation before moving on in each 9 hour cycle? Why not just send everything as fast as possible all at once and wait for conf
by testplzignore 8y ago
Why did they need to wait for confirmation before moving on in each 9 hour cycle? Why not just send everything as fast as possible all at once and wait for confirmation at the end? Seems like they would be wasting lots of bandwidth waiting for the ack.
- vardump 8y agoMaybe those had interdependencies that would have caused a total failure if the previous phase failed?
- greglindahl 8y agoWasted bandwidth? The DSN supports all of our inter-planetary spacecraft, not just this one.
- gizmo686 8y agoHow many other time critical communications did they have going on at the time. I assume the new horizon team was given all the DSN time they wanted during this.
- greglindahl 8y agoSo you think the DSN was idle for 9 hours while they waited for the known speed of light delay? That's not how the DSN is scheduled. The only way that the DSN wastes bandwidth is when they retransmit something that was actually received correctly. New Horizons would never ask for time that was unnecessary.