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Lucy spacecraft prepares for second asteroid encounter (phys.org)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"One of the weird things to wrap your brain around with these deep space missions is how slow the speed of light is," continued Vincent. "Lucy is 12.5 light minutes away from Earth, meaning it takes that long for any signal we send to reach the spacecraft. Then it takes another 12.5 minutes before we get Lucy's response telling us we were heard. So, when we command the data playback after closest approach, it takes 25 minutes from when we ask to see the pictures before we get any of them to the ground."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Possibly my favorite thing about starfield was the realistic take they had on this exact issue lol

Nobody has phones bc you can't just send a text to someone in the next star system. It's literally faster to fly there with a warp drive and hand deliver a message.

A very neat detail that fits in nicely with the RPG element of having to be a courier half the time. It's kinda crazy to think we are already having this problem irl.