Can anyone explain...
The telemetry downlink speed wasn't terrible. 14.2 baud, during Saturn orbit phase, if I'm reading this correctly. A state of the art 1991 phone modem.
― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:19 (six years ago) link
Oops, 14400 kbit/s.
By comparison, New Horizons, sending back the data from its Pluto flyby, and using both antennas, was limited to 2000 bits per second. Your 1995 AOL dial-up was 28 times faster. Space porn requires patience.
― Special Egyptian Guest Star (Sanpaku), Saturday, 16 September 2017 05:25 (six years ago) link
Emptying out the Cassini conference room. (thread)
This is the @CassiniSaturn - VIMS Operations Center (read: conference room). For the rest of the month, my job is to dismantle it - making sure the stuff that needs to be destroyed gets destroyed, sorting out the rest. This is going to be fun! pic.twitter.com/fiPQxfRr2e— Emily J (@EmExAstris) September 5, 2019
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 12 September 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
Somebody just pointed me to this page, maybe it’s already mentioned upthread or elsewhere:https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 February 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link