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Process-intensive, but higher compression has clear strategic value. Distant satellites such as Voyager, where bandwidth is severely limited, could transmit mor
by Zenst 3mo ago
Process-intensive, but higher compression has clear strategic value. Distant satellites such as Voyager, where bandwidth is severely limited, could transmit more data using such capabilities. Equally, for long-term archival storage, improved compression would allow far greater volumes of data to be preserved on durable, life-long media formats.
- XorNot 3mo agoDistant space probes are power constrained though. It's entirely possible the degradation of their RTG power sources would be more expensive doing the compression then just sending the data as is.
- lstodd 3mo agoRTG degrade no matter what you do with the resulting heat. It doesn't matter if you compress stuff or just let them cpus idle be.
- XorNot 3mo agoThat's the point: you're going to spend a lot more time compressing when you could've just been sending data. And you're eating into a limited overall power and weight budget to do rather then say, run the science on the probe.
- rini17 3mo agoWhat do you think the actual bandwidth speed on the voyager or new horizons is. You are spending lot of time sending the data anyway.