by pauldear » Mon May 02, 2011 12:50 pm
True. But don't forget, you only need to send enough data to confirm orbit. Even if it beeps once per orbit, I *think* (someone help me out here) that that would be enough to confirm the orbit. (Unless we hypothesize that, as soon as the satellite goes round the dark-side, it lands, gets picked up by a very very fast truck, is shipped around the other side and relaunched....)