To: MtnClimber
Why wasn’t all of the necessary software already on the spacecraft?
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15 posted on
05/18/2018 8:00:50 PM PDT by
Lurker
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To: Lurker
Not enough memory, not enough power.
16 posted on
05/18/2018 8:16:45 PM PDT by
MtnClimber
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To: Lurker
According to Wickipedia it had a radioisotope thermo-electric power supply that was expected to decay to 200W by the time it got to Pluto. The transmit data rate was expected to be 38 kbit/s at Jupiter; at Pluto’s distance, a rate of approximately 1 kbit/s was expected. The memory was 8gb and was probably used as the storage of images with much less left for software.
17 posted on
05/18/2018 8:25:21 PM PDT by
MtnClimber
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