> I imagine that the challenge with during EHT-style VLBI in space is downlink bandwidth... there's just no way to get the petabytes of data they talk about down from a satellite.
Why do you say that? The latest High Throughput commercial satellites do 500Gpbs downlink throughput, so shouldn't the transfer time for a petabyte of data be reasonable?
Of course those satellites are configured to transmit data all over the earth, so the technology would have to be used differently for this application.
Why do you say that? The latest High Throughput commercial satellites do 500Gpbs downlink throughput, so shouldn't the transfer time for a petabyte of data be reasonable?
Of course those satellites are configured to transmit data all over the earth, so the technology would have to be used differently for this application.