Timeline for What are the last images from the Galileo orbiter before impacting Jupiter?
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| Dec 1, 2014 at 23:41 | comment | added | Keith Thompson | Galileo's data rate was reduced considerably by the failure of its main antenna to deploy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 23:11 | comment | added | pabouk - Ukraine stay strong | @LocalFluff: EDRS is designed to work between satellites on the scale of 10⁴ km. Jupiter is almost about 10⁹ km far from us. The strength of the signal would be lower by many magnitudes. Here is a nice illustration of a laser beam divergence. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 17:35 | comment | added | LocalFluff | Luckily, this might change dramatically since laser communication in space is being successfully tested. 1.8 gigabits/s European Data Relay System (EDRS) is the latest example, near Earth. First image downloaded by laser. | |
| Nov 30, 2014 at 16:22 | vote | accept | LocalFluff | ||
| Nov 30, 2014 at 13:54 | history | answered | dotancohen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |