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Re:Why it takes so long to get data back from New Horizons by icw on Sunday July 19, 2015 @02:17PM (#9912199)
Forward error correction can add significant overhead. From the specification of the RF subsystem posted earlier (http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~tcase/NH%20RF%20Telecom%20Sys%2...), 5/6 of the data returned is redundant.
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