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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by SoftTalker on Saturday June 15, 2024 @10:50AM (#40690162)
And how do you get the data back from these probes? The voyagers have antennas that are close to 4 meters in diameter and ~25-watt radio transmitters. You aren't doing that in a gram, and you aren't powering that in a gram either.
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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by minitoar on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:36AM (#40690409)
Just go read the starshot proposal. They address all of these issues, some more convincingly than others but they have thought it out in great detail.

In short, it’s a swarm of gram-scale probes and they work together to transmit.

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