How’s does space x control the burn of the rocket from a distance how does it work what is the distance ? Or tech component they use?
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Much of the spacecraft is automated but some control from the ground is possible. The specific radio network used is the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). This is made up of several NASA TDRS communication satellites, each in a high orbit so they maintain their positions over points on the earth’s surface, giving essentially global coverage. The system was deployed from the 1980s to allow for communications with earth-orbit spacecraft, so they don’t have to wait to be above a ground station.
SpaceX is also using its own Starlink network of thousands of low-earth-orbit communications satellites and this is used to send high-bandwidth data, notably the high-definition video we saw from the spacecraft.
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