On 4 Dec 2005, at 19:39, Frank Duignan wrote:
> Can you compress the data on the fly to lessen the load on the disks?
Not currently known, but working assumption is no. The data source is
satellite downlink, for future satellites, and I believe that they will
use compression on the science data, although current missions don't
(my information there is a little out of date - it's possible that some
current missions already compress their data).
Niall
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