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What are you on about? All the relevant information is there. What need is there for details? That would be interesting, sure, but it is not in any way necessary when simply reporting on the state of this mission. Something the linked article does.

Not everything needs to always contain all information.



Agreed I've been sitting here trying to figure out what relevancy frequencies, bandwidth and power have to the primary issue which is cost. The article described the problem and why there isn't a solution quite clearly to me.


So to translate: 'Don't you worry about space communications, let me worry about blank.'


The cost is a function of the technical criteria, and we have no idea what the cost is either. It might be quite small, just not within the unallocated budget at NASA. Without specifics, there's no way to gauge the economic question.


It's not uncommon for NASA to include a list of TV satellites and frequencies that stream their video releases in a press release, so why not for research satellites as well?




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