4 ms·
One millibit per second might be a bit excessive. Surely we can expect more than just one bit every seventeen minutes.
by SpaceNoodled 1y ago
One millibit per second might be a bit excessive. Surely we can expect more than just one bit every seventeen minutes.
- ripe 1y agoHa! Your point reminded me of the NASA Mars rover deployed in 2021 with the little Ingenuity helicopter on board. The helicopter had a bug that required a software update, which NASA had to upload over three network legs: the Deep Space Network to Mars, a UHF leg from Mars-orbiting robotic vehicles to the rover, and a ZigBee connection from the rover to the Ingenuity helicopter. A single message could take between 5 and 20 minutes to arrive... Edit: I described this in an article back then: https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2021-04-18-install.html https://robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2021-04-18-install.html