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Distant space probes are power constrained though. It's entirely possible the degradation of their RTG power sources would be more expensive doing the compress
by XorNot 4mo ago
Distant space probes are power constrained though.
It's entirely possible the degradation of their RTG power sources would be more expensive doing the compression then just sending the data as is.
- lstodd 4mo agoRTG degrade no matter what you do with the resulting heat. It doesn't matter if you compress stuff or just let them cpus idle be.
- XorNot 4mo agoThat's the point: you're going to spend a lot more time compressing when you could've just been sending data. And you're eating into a limited overall power and weight budget to do rather then say, run the science on the probe.
- rini17 4mo agoWhat do you think the actual bandwidth speed on the voyager or new horizons is. You are spending lot of time sending the data anyway.