Comment by adastra22
2 days ago
Nothing funny about it. How would you get the signal out? Plasma from re-entry is a near-perfect radio shield. We only get nice crisp images from starship now because of Starlink.
Remember all the old Apollo and even Shuttle missions where the Mission Control would be calling out "____, do you read me" during a landing attempt? This is why.
I know why, but it's funny because connectivity is essentially a solved issue in the modern world (most people don't sit under landing rockets), whereas rocket science is... well, ... rocket science.