Between June/28th and July/04, Cassini will have priority with JPL's DSN.

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Jacob Samorodin — 6/26/2004 4:38:03 PM (archived)

It's deepspace data "firehose" time again!...
Well...at least starting near the end of this month.
I think both Spirit & Opportunity [and their JPL teams] maybe given a brief
well-earned hiatus. Cassini may tie up JPL's DSN during these coming days.

How many megabytes of data did the Voyagers and Pioneer 10 & PVO
downlink in 1979?...I'm sure It wasn't a large quantity by tioday's standards.
And mercifully most of the data collected by the Voyagers and Pioneer 10 during their flybys in 1979 was bulk transmitted over a period of a few weeks.

Today's deep-space missions MUST SURELY transmit megabytes worth of data every day by comparison, and have done so for the past few months.
And between June 28 & July 04, Cassini may transmit hundreds of megabytes, or even a few gigabytes worth of data...A veritable firehose of info.
I'm amazed that JPL's DSN can handle it all.

Jacob

"We choose to go to the moon, and do those OTHER THINGS, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
John F Kennedy

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Ok, Oppy hasn't moved in over a week. What gives? - RobVG - 6/26/2004 2:03:22 AM
- Looks like it's still heading slowly downhill. - Tom Brosz - 6/27/2004 2:38:27 AM
- Also... - Jacob Samorodin - 6/26/2004 3:27:58 PM
  - Busy huh? Maybe thats why no rear hazcam images. - RobVG - 6/26/2004 3:56:25 PM
    - Between June/28th and July/04, Cassini will have priority with JPL's DSN. - Jacob Samorodin - 6/26/2004 4:38:03 PM
      - DSN , that's pretty interesting. - RobVG - 6/26/2004 5:19:53 PM
        
        re: DSN , that's pretty interesting. - Jacob Samorodin - 6/26/2004 5:49:28 PM
        
        re: DSN , that's pretty interesting. - Nick Hoffman - 6/26/2004 11:21:57 PM
- What gives - SteveS - 6/26/2004 5:41:55 AM

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