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- From: Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Fiber optic umbilical
- X-Sender: newtout 0.06 Jan 3 1993
- Message-ID: <37410aff@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 04 Jan 93 10:30:14
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- Putting a fiber optic umbilical on a remote sensing platform designed to
- traverse rough terrain seems very odd to me. Can someone explain to me why
- this was done? A few things come to mind such as eliminating the weight
- required for a radio and associated power supply. Also the fiber optic does
- allow for high reliability and high speed data transfer.
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- I'm *not* throwing stones at the Dante folks. I'm just doing some head
- scratching and hoping someone will explain this to me.
-
- Thanks.
-
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