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UpintheExosphere t1_j2tqt0m wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
Did you mean to reply to someone else? This has nothing to do with what I said
UpintheExosphere t1_j2tq1qn wrote
Reply to comment by ShadyRedditInvestor in NASA planetary science budget remains under stress by Lolbitable
The budget that went to SLS is completely separate from NASA's planetary science budget. There are different divisions for human spaceflight, earth missions, heliophysics, astronomy, planetary science, etc.
UpintheExosphere t1_j73r5kp wrote
Reply to comment by CompetitiveYou2034 in How could a high-altitude surveillance balloon be captured? by aggasalk
Actually, some stratospheric research balloons do just store info and then are recovered after they descend. It really just depends on the balloon. They may not be able to transmit very far and signal is lost after a certain point, or maybe the data is too large for the amount of bandwidth, etc.