Re: [ot] hunting for top secret item from Columbia


Message posted by Thud on February 07, 2003 at 5:50:57 PST:

gary,

Doesn't the Shuttle on-orbit communications through the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) use S-band and K-band for the downlink. I think it's encrypted and is also transmitted digitally, which means it's unintelligible. So it has to be modulated to analog so you can hear it and unencrypted. Maybe that's the "box" their looking for. Just a guess.

Regards,
Thud


In Reply to: Re: [ot] hunting for top secret item from Columbia posted by gary on February 07, 2003 at 0:55:39 PST:

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