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I’m having a hard time seeing what’s special about this. This has been a HAM radio thing for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_comm

I’m having a hard time seeing what’s special about this. This has been a HAM radio thing for a long time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_communication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_communicati...

sneak 5y ago
They did it with a data modulation mode (LoRa) which has the following properties: - it is very resistant to noise - it is low power - it is popular - it is patented/proprietary
ricardobeat 5y ago
It’s basically Wi-Fi to the moon. At very low bandwidth, but still amazing.
wrycoder 5y ago
ham is not an acronym