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Was the time of Schiaparelli's landing chosen specifically so the Giant Meter Wave Radiotelescope could listen?
The ESA blog post Listening to an Alien Landing describes the plan to monitor a UHF beacon transmitted by Schiaparelli during it's upcoming descent and landing on Mars (2016-10-19 about 14:45 UT). The ...
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Current maximum bandwidth between Mars and Earth?
What is the current maximum bandwidth between Mars and Earth (at their closest), accounting for any satellite/prober/orbiter that is either at Mars or already launched and en route?
So far I've found ...
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