Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s

Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by lavezza on Friday August 10, 2012 @05:55PM (#4368473)

I'm not sure about Curiosity in particular, but I work in the space industry and can say that commands are normally timestamped and encrypted. The encryption stops someone from commanding the spacecraft, the timestamp stops someone from recording a transmission and resending it later.

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Re:Mars to Earth at an average of 29 kbits/s by alanh on Friday August 10, 2012 @06:52PM (#4368694)

So there’s basically a real Goldeneye key. And you could really use a Goldeneye key duplicator before leaving Severneya!

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