Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mfs From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: 2010 Message-ID: <173@mhuxr.UUCP> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:19:39 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxr.173 Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:19:39 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Dec-84 02:42:45 EST References: <> <152@lasspvax.UUCP> <786@milo.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 14 > > At the risk of starting another "2010" argument - can anyone tell me > how long it takes for a radio transmission round trip to Jupiter? I seem > to remember ground control getting upset that they hadn't heard a response > to a request sent an half hour earlier. Is this reasonable? (I thought I > remembered a bigger fuss being made over this in 2001.) > > eric This would be a half-hour after receipt of the message on earth. It would take a half-hour for the message to reach earth, also. This also holds in earth-Jupiter transmissions. Marcel