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NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] Perhyte 1 points 1 year ago

If we ever figure out FTL travel, FTL communication is relatively simple: worst case, you send your message to a ship (possibly a drone) with instructions to FTL-travel to the destination and deliver the message. It's kind of the high-tech equivalent of a man on a horse delivering a sealed parchment, but it'd work.

If by that point we haven't figured out a better way to do it, at the very least we should have that method available.