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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
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Subject: Re: 2010
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 16:19:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 18 16:19:39 1984
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> 
> 	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