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Any space mission is fairly complex no matter the agency private or public.

For me the most interesting part to watch personally was the telemetry. What's the latency involved here, do they have agency in terms of manual overrides and intervention in case things go wrong?

What does RTT look like, are there more efficient encoding of data to allow minimal information?

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Latency is dominated by speed of light delays, which are about 2.5 seconds round trip. Encoding is generally more concerned with data integrity than data minimization.

I'm not sure about the details of this mission and whether the Indians have negotiated usage of the Deep Space Network, but with the large antennas of the DSN multi megabit rates are quite achievable.

There is a latency issue, not a throughput issue

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