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A comment on NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to Titan. Parent comment
Latency is high, but the power you have to pump through an antenna / laser to get enough watts on the receiver goes up really fast with distance.
Here's a summary that touches on it if you'd like to learn more: http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Communicat...
And here's a detailed derivation for voyager. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24338/how-to-calcu...
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Latency is high, but the power you have to pump through an antenna / laser to get enough watts on the receiver goes up really fast with distance.
Here's a summary that touches on it if you'd like to learn more: http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/Communicat...
And here's a detailed derivation for voyager. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/24338/how-to-calcu...