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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by minitoar on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:37AM (#40690416)
If you have enough of them you can just lose some fraction and still function.
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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by flaminHotSpeedo on Saturday June 15, 2024 @01:42PM (#40691281)
Also it may work out that a lighter, faster probe with a shorter service life could have a greater effective range, if the service life is less sensitive to weight changes than the speed is
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Re:Voyager 1 is back online! NASA spacecraft returns data fr... by minitoar on Monday June 17, 2024 @11:32AM (#40706652)
Right, that’s a nice way of thinking about it.
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