I think this is the true reason that telemetry is as raw as possible. The happy-path telemetry tells you very little you didn't already know, but when somethin

I think this is the true reason that telemetry is as raw as possible. The happy-path telemetry tells you very little you didn't already know, but when something goes wrong, those last few bits before the transmitter went silent can make or break your analysis. Sitting on bits until you have enough to run a block through the cipher seems like a terrible idea, even if that's only a few microseconds. Things happen mighty fast when you're trying to get data that might represent the structural collapse or propagation of a blast wave through the body of a hypersonic vehicle.