Rover Mission
Rover mission is a collection of a ground control base station communicating with a rover unit on a foreign planet. Ground control is the component which sits on Earth and coordinates mission communication, it is always ready to both send and receive chunks of data. Planet Rover is a rover lander on a planet. Due to planet movements, it is not continuously accessible, with certain communication time windows. Thus, when it comes available, it sends collected data back to Ground Control in chunks, as well as receives new commands from Ground Control. The radiation satellite is used by Ground Control to predict communication level expectations with the Rover. It is streaming the information to Ground Control.
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