NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan

Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by johnhenry on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:06PM (#20307165)

Don't get your hopes down! It's still very possible that we'll get some good, if not real-time, video out of this!

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by jvanderbot on Friday June 28, 2019 @02:12PM (#20307216)

Ah, we likely will not get real time video. Maybe APL has some tricks I'm not privy to. Source: I asked a DSN coms engineer.

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by swebs on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:18PM (#20308861)

There will be at least an hour delay. Saturn is pretty far

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by bdamm on Friday June 28, 2019 @05:34PM (#20308955)

10 seconds of video from Titan would change the world. It's shame we don't have this from Mars already. So it would take a few weeks to transmit - we got time.

Now figuring out which 10 seconds to select and send to earth... that'll be interesting. An on-board cache of x GB data storage, with key frames taken every 30 minutes, would probably be able to select some pretty compelling 10 second segments.

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by AmericanChopper on Friday June 28, 2019 @06:43PM (#20309397)

What about the world would be different after getting a 10 second video from Titan?

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by cheerlessbog on Friday June 28, 2019 @10:51PM (#20310515)

It would be inspiring for me at least.(Assuming something was moving)

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Re:NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan by andygates on Monday July 01, 2019 @05:58AM (#20323877)

Send them all, just pick a likely-nice one for sending while the eyes of the world are on Mission Control.

Caching everything then sending it at leisure is working nicely for New Horizons.

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