Timeline for Is a space probe communication relay possible?
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| Jun 6, 2020 at 10:17 | answer | added | Steve Linton | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 23:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackSpaceExp/status/873690187674652672 | ||
| Jun 8, 2017 at 17:47 | comment | added | user | You might be interested in my answer to How far away would an alien civilization need to be for us to not notice them? on Worldbuilding SE. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 21:22 | history | edited | called2voyage♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 20:43 | answer | added | djr | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 19:22 | comment | added | 1337joe | Related: space.stackexchange.com/questions/9984/… | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | called2voyage♦ |
@user8278 By the way, your last question (Another question that I want to ask is that if the probes are small, will gravity affect them less, so they could travel fast?) needs to be asked in a separate post. We require concentration on one focused topic per post.
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:50 | comment | added | user8278 | @Uwe 😅 well, in that case, can many relay stations be used just to navigate the last one? | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:42 | comment | added | Uwe | The large antenna dishes of the DSN and the very powerful transmitters on Earth could not be used for the relay stations. The maximal distance from one relay station to the next would be much smaller than the distance from Earth to Pluto. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:37 | comment | added | user19742 | the smaller would travel faster, but if both are very small compared to the booster then the difference would be very slight. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:35 | comment | added | user8278 | @Deimophobia... If a small probe is compared with a larger probe, (both having the same boosters) which would travel fast? | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:28 | comment | added | user19742 | Regarding gravity, mass doesn't change trajectory - a smaller probe has a smaller force due to gravity, but also has less inertia and changes direction more easily, so it will have the same trajectory as a larger probe. However, it's lower inertia means that the same booster will accelerate it to a higher velocity, than although this improvement becomes less relevant as the mass of the probe compared to the booster becomes negligible. | |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:27 | history | edited | called2voyage♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:25 | comment | added | user19742 | Yes, theoretically. It hasn't been done yet, but Breakthrough Starshot is investigating it as a possible way to make lightyear-scale communication with nanosats easier. | |
| Jun 5, 2017 at 18:22 | history | asked | user8278 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |