Comment Comment by jvanderbot It's about a year to the outer planets on falcon heavy. Less on SLS, but I digress.Suppose a flyby mission records a couple of these cartidges and flies back to Earth. Assume 3 years round trip (1 there, 1 record, 1 back).That's Nx80,000,000,000,000 bits in 3 years.Or Nx10E+16 bits / 9E+7 seconds.Or about a gigabit per second effective rate per cartridge.Not bad. Psyche (our best optical link from deep space), has 2 megabits/s peak rate. parent jvanderbot 2 years ago
Suppose a flyby mission records a couple of these cartidges and flies back to Earth. Assume 3 years round trip (1 there, 1 record, 1 back).
That's Nx80,000,000,000,000 bits in 3 years.
Or Nx10E+16 bits / 9E+7 seconds.
Or about a gigabit per second effective rate per cartridge.
Not bad. Psyche (our best optical link from deep space), has 2 megabits/s peak rate.