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Black Boxes for Spacecrafts

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the so-many-raunchy-jokes-to-choose-from dept.

karvind writes "NewScientist is running story about NASA's plan to put small, heat-resistant black boxes that will transmit data back to Earth when future space probes break up during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. NASA will work with Aerospace Corporation to develop black boxes called Reentry Breakup Recorders (REBRs) weighing just 1 kilogram and spanning less than 30 centimetres."

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  1. Black Box? by Bananatree3 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hmm, I wonder what could be inside....

  2. Re:This sounds fatalist by dgatwood · · Score: 0, Redundant
    It reminds me of the old joke about black boxes in aircraft. Something along the lines of "why don't they make the whole plane out of the same material...."

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  3. a suggestion toNASA... by C0d1ngM0nk3y · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So... after a crash the only thing that's left is a black box?

    Why don't they make the space shuttle out of the same material as the black box?

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    1. Re:a suggestion toNASA... by CrazyTalk · · Score: 0, Redundant

      aww, someone mod this funny - thats a classic aerospace engineering joke!

  4. And then you wonder why... by Lord+Graga · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why didn't they just make the probe from the same material as the black box then? ;P