What can we do to overcome the four minutes of radio silence when a space probe lands?

Not exactly the heat. What happens is that the compression of the air also ionizes it, and it’s the ionization that causes the blackout.

The space shuttle was partially able to avoid this on occasion my communicating through a “hole” in the ionization envelope behind the stern, but that required satellites inteh right position to pick up and redirect the signal.

Realistically, we cannot do much without serious technological advances. Physics are what they are.

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Muzak?

You’re such a devotee of radio that you can’t do without it for 4 minutes? Or are you just curious?

@Sunny2 I would like a way to prevent disaster, the first step is to know what happens in that crucial four minutes… it seems that those four minutes is do or die for astronauts.

Maybe once we can make communication devices that use neutrinos or quantum particles….

@talljasperman Thanks for answering in spite of my ignorance. I knew nothing about the significance of the event.