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Driving remote controlled robots on the dark side is the excuse for storing people at the L2 point opposite the moon. How about we just put a repeater at L4 an
by jws 15y ago
Driving remote controlled robots on the dark side is the excuse for storing people at the L2 point opposite the moon.
How about we just put a repeater at L4 and L2 and leave the humans home? Or three repeaters in lunar orbit if we don't want to clutter up L4 and L2.
- rlpb 15y agoWhat would that do to latency?
- maaku 15y agoOn the order of seconds, which is really not a problem (I work at NASA and we've tested remote vehicle operation in analogue environments with 3+ second RTT. The operators adjust to it pretty fast).
- rbanffy 15y agoIf I remember correctly, you can put the repeater on orbit around L2 and have it visible from Earth(it would look like it's circling the Moon). Latency may prove a bitch. But first problems first - shouldn't we put a couple rovers on the near side of the Moon first to develop the technology before we think about (and spend money on) putting them on the other side and invent a couple other problems we really don't have yet (and may never actually have)? Just imagine rovers get brainy enough to be completely autonomous (something I classify as highly likely) - why would we need to have a couple humans on L2 to remote control them? "Because it's cool" doesn't cut it.