Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "How the Soviets Landed on Venus" video.

as far as keeping the signal connection to the probe active for as long as possible, what they probably need is a multi-stage system. a component that stays in orbit as a signal relay, and a probe unit to go to the surface. At that point it could actually have multiple surface probes all communicating with the orbiting relay. The relay could buffer the signal so that it could complete sending the data to Earth even after the surface probes failed. And if the signal from the surface probe(s) doesn't need to be pushed all the way to earth, they might get more bandwidth out of it (no guarantee on that though).
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