Posted: Feb 15, 2018 10:34 am
i have no avatar wrote:Car Orbiting Earth
"These cameras, connected to the car's battery, are now out of power."
I assume they mean the 12V battery. Why not run the camera off of the HV batteries through a high to low voltage converter and with a high enough gain antenna to send images to Earth while the car is in its own orbit about the Sun?
Gosh, I'm so much smarter than Elon Musk, the dummy.
Or were fully charged HV batteries too much of a risk? Theories? Credible info? (too lazy to Google).
Dunno. They might have left them off to reduce weight and maximise the orbit.