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I'm a little late to the party, but I did a similar study on ridesharing's influence on DWI rates in Austin, TX before and after Uber and Lyft arrived and then exited the city, you…

Forward error correction can add significant overhead. From the specification of the RF subsystem posted earlier ( http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~tcase/NH%20RF%20Telecom%20Sys%2... )…

New Horizons is using a 1/6 rate Turbo code for forward error correction, meaning 5/6 of the data returned is redundant. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9…

Much faster data rates I suspect - you can spend some of that on forward error correction to compensate for rain fade.

Pretty much - call that antenna gain, it's much cheaper to put bigger and better hardware on the ground. Recall though that the signal still goes through a TDRSS satellite, which a…

Other more obscure methods of communicating with the ISS include the Russian Lira and Regul systems as well as the Japanese Ka-band dish on the external lab.

Can't speak for S-band, but Ku-band data rates are 25 Mbps Earth-to-ISS and 300 Mbps ISS-to-Earth, which is the maximum supported by TDRSS Ku-band links. Data rates may drop a bit …

Elaborating on TDRSS a little bit - the ISS has allotments on both S- and Ku-band transponders (there are several per satellite) and hands off between satellites (TDRSS is geostati…

Try space-filling curves! http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/mow/mow.html