NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying

Re:NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying by jvanderbot on Saturday November 30, 2024 @01:12PM (#42283061)

This is a much better plan. One issue with 100 probes around, say, Enceladus, is the downlink bandwidth. This is why I suspect on site infra is going to be required.

But honestly let's do both. Infra and something like Planet Labs for outer planets. We can.

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Re:NASA's Europa Clipper: Miles Down, Instruments Deploying by Teever on Saturday November 30, 2024 @02:51PM (#42283597)

There will absolutely be a place for super nodes in the kind of networks that are going to be built out.

Their performance will likely be somewhat limited compared to what you're looking for at this point due to radiation and the excessive mass of the shielding required to protect them from it.

That can be mitigated with in situ resource production. Like burying a server rack scale processing node under ground on mars and relaying data to it with the network I described above or capturing water from comets and using it fill compartments for radiation shielding in orbital data centers.

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