Bit flip is the bane of satellite communication, especially if you tried to use FTP over it. Also, for critical eon-duration record keeping, run-length encodin

Bit flip is the bane of satellite communication, especially if you tried to use FTP over it. Also, for critical eon-duration record keeping, run-length encoding or variable record size are harder to maintain and recover from large file on ROM-type storages than fixed-length record or text-type (i.e. ASCII log, or JSON) … against multiple cosmic-type alterations. Sure that you could do max. Shannon approach for multi-bit ECC, but text-based will be recovered a lot quicker (given then-unknown formatting).