From fduarte@netcom.com Tue Jul 25 08:10:00 1995
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From: fduarte@netcom.com (Freya Duarte)
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Subject: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed.

Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden.
In the recovered telemetry dumps, Nodes 11-14 have IP/UUCP addresses that don't route through any known terrestrial ISP.

If Nodes 11-14 are in orbit, who is maintaining the transmitters now that Orion is bankrupt?

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Freya Duarte <fduarte@netcom.com>
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From hsato@tum.de Wed Jul 26 20:09:00 1995
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From: hsato@tum.de (Hana Sato)
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Subject: Re: Data: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again
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In article <1995Jul25.081000.7138@netcom.com>, fduarte@netcom.com (Freya Duarte) writes:
> Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed.
> Nodes 01 to 10 correspond to US, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, UK, USSR, Brazil, and Sweden.

Satellite relays! That explains why the timecode delay on the Hamburg feed was exactly 240 milliseconds -- the speed of light to geostationary orbit!

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