Well it sorta both yes the flybys at this point are so short that the amount of data they collect is limited but they still collect GB’s of data and the up line

Well it sorta both yes the flybys at this point are so short that the amount of data they collect is limited but they still collect GB’s of data and the up line data rate will likely drop even further as the probe goes further. It’s still astonishing to me that they can get 1kbp/s with s 1.5m dish antenna pointed at a target 0.29281 arc minutes in size. This is the equivalent of pissing into your toilet form orbit. But heck now the FCC can claim that broadband coverage has been expanded up to the Kuiper Belt.