Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC From: REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Belated voice notes (January, TCP not yet working then), IRAS Message-ID: <2401@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 20:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2401 Posted: Tue Jun 21 20:50:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jun-83 21:10:12 EDT Lines: 8 From: Robert Elton MaasWed, Jan 26 According to KPIX channel 5 news, the new infrared satellite will send back to Earth just a few hundred bits of information a day. That sounds like an extremely low data rate. There must be some kind of stupid error in their reporting. -- I think they said 600 bits per day. That's ridiculous.