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Kind of amazing the article doesn't contain the word latency a single time. It's good they're improving throughput/bandwidth but it doesn't help the big proble
by ben7799 3y ago
Kind of amazing the article doesn't contain the word latency a single time.
It's good they're improving throughput/bandwidth but it doesn't help the big problem which is the latency.
- pxeger1 3y agoI mean the latency problem is definitely not solvable, so why would they be trying to work on it?
- basementcat 3y agoThey actually improved the data transfer latency considerably. An earlier version of the DSOC ground receiver was designed to dump data to a hard drive that would then be trucked over to Pasadena. Some joked that more bits might be lost on the I-210 freeway than between the asteroid belt and Earth.
- proaralyst 3y agoThere's a hard physical limit (speed of light) on latency that we can't do anything about. Higher bandwidth deep space communication gives us the ability to recover more science data from robotic missions, so it's worth working on.