Right now , data is arriving across 238,800 mi at 100MBps ( as in megabytes per 2nd , not megabits ) , dwarfing every house internet connections out there . That ’s a amount of 461 GB of data transport per 24-hour interval , thanks to this machine .
It ’s the Travelling Wave Tube Amplifier , the first gamey data charge per unit K - dance band vector on a NASA spacecraft . It ’s on display board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter , which is sending massive amount of data , from images of its control surface — likethe first photos of the Apollo site in 40 years — to 3D data point which are being sue into the most detailed topographic map of our satellite . [ NASA ]
https://gizmodo.com/first-new-images-of-the-apollo-landing-sites-in-40-year-5317057/
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