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Busy Signals for Deep Space Experiments

Posted by chrisd on from the time-for-a-very-long-extension-cord dept.

lionchild writes "Just when you hated getting those 'Network Busy' signals on your Cell Phones..imagine what it's like to deal with communications in deep space after all these years of putting satellites and probes out there into the space lanes. Check the article out on space.com " The saddest part is the poor state that the deep space network of dishes is in, with some of the 70 meter antennae approaching their fifth decade with no repair funds on the horizon.

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  1. Re:There's no problem with busy signals by HEbGb · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    +1 informative?

    The gravitational force is proportional to mass, but goes inversely squared with distance. So any local effect of a gravitational field on a light beam will diminish very quickly with distance. There is no 'light horizon' for the solar system. You could just as easily say that there's enough stuff out there to pull the light beam away from us.

    Complete bunk.