A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission

Re:A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission by Ididntdothis on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @03:14PM (#20338433)

"3.9 GB per year (0.987 kbps!) of data could be transmitted over its primary mission"

That's pretty restricting. I guess we won't see many high res videos or picture.

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Re:A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission by solstice on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:28AM (#20342604)

Or put a heat and radiation resistant usb-drive in a capsule (complete with small parachute) loaded on a sling shot directed at Earth. Would certainly take a long time but would be fun.

Seriously though: what about launching a rocket in the direction of the outer solar system that launches mini relay satellites that act as a mesh network? Put a few bigger ones in the asteroid belt and the rest in various Lagrange points around Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc.

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Re:A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission by walrus01 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:47PM (#20340402)

Path loss, Shannon limit. Until we figure out how to build 150 meter parabolic dishes in orbit, or on the moon to supplant the NASA deep space network.

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