[AR] Re: cubesat data rates question

  • From: Henry Spencer <henry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:33:25 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 26 Nov 2013, Ian Garcia wrote:
> The PlanetLabs guys are wondering if 250 Mb per pass of downlink rate
> is a record for Cubesats. Anybody here knows? Henry?

Don't know that anybody's been keeping score. :-)

Could be.  Certainly none of our current nanosats (most of them not really 
cubesats) can send stuff that fast, although upgrades are in the works for 
some of the more data-intensive missions now in the pipeline.

Henry



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