Hello All! Hope all is well.
I was reading about the Voyager Space probe sent into space about 35 years ago.
Under the "Future of the probe" section in Wikipedia It says in the year 2015 they will terminate the Data Tape Recorder (D TR) operations (limited by ability to capture 1.4 kbit/s data using a 70 m/34 m antenna array. This is the minimum rate at which the DTR can read-out data.)
Why would they have to terminate the DTR due to a minimum rate? There seems to be something problematic about the data being read out slower than normal.
Can some one shed some light as to why a slower data rate would be a problem?
Thank You
I was reading about the Voyager Space probe sent into space about 35 years ago.
Under the "Future of the probe" section in Wikipedia It says in the year 2015 they will terminate the Data Tape Recorder (D TR) operations (limited by ability to capture 1.4 kbit/s data using a 70 m/34 m antenna array. This is the minimum rate at which the DTR can read-out data.)
Why would they have to terminate the DTR due to a minimum rate? There seems to be something problematic about the data being read out slower than normal.
Can some one shed some light as to why a slower data rate would be a problem?
Thank You