Atmospheric Plunges: Pics or it Didn't Happen Edition

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Atmospheric Plunges: Pics or it Didn't Happen Edition 2017-09-15 09:03:42 Post No. 9169376
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Atmospheric Plunges: Pics or it Didn't Happen Edition Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:03:42 Post No. 9169376 [Report]

Is this plausible, /sci/?
My understanding is that the bandwidth problems we have with our probes are related almost entirely to the distance of the transmissions, and that data-heavy transmissions, including video, are possible at shorter ranges over reasonable timescales (Satellite TV, ISS livestreams, etc). As such, it is bandwidth that stands between us and, say, video of a descent into Jupiter's atmosphere.

At this point we've also done orbiter/lander pairs, Cassini/Huygens among them, so what's to stop us from solving the bandwidth problem with pic related, such that our suicide probes can finally post pics? If it is plausible, why isn't it a much more common mission profile?

I understand it would be pretty goddamn expensive and video specifically might not ACTUALLY be that useful, but surely real time data in much higher volume would be useful no matter what data we were gathering.

>tl;dr
Transmit lots of data very rapidly from your probe to your orbiter, then let your orbiter take its sweet time sending it back to Earth. Why or why not?

Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:08:08 Post No.9169380
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Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:08:08 Post No.9169380 [Report]

Better design would be orbiter/lander on parachutes. Still one trick pony but you'll get considerably more data on the atmosphere than you would with several second lasting blaze.

Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:38:34 Post No.9169403
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Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:38:34 Post No.9169403 [Report]

>>9169376
1. Expensive and no political will
2. Free space loss with RF is too great (laser comms tech is on the way though) and the amplifiers necessary to transmit at the tens of megabits necessary from distances like Jupiter would take over a kW of power
3. Speed of light means "livestreaming" is basically impossible

Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:51:25 Post No.9169413
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Anonymous 2017-09-15 09:51:25 Post No.9169413 [Report]

>>9169403
Of course there's no way to do it live. The key would be to pull as much constant data as possible, record it, then forward it to Earth as doable. I imagine it would be a few weeks or more to send good shit back that far.

Anonymous 2017-09-15 10:30:50 Post No.9169439
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Anonymous 2017-09-15 10:30:50 Post No.9169439 [Report]

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