That’s really interesting. I guess it must be coming through as interference, which would indicate, maybe, that something wasn’t well shielded in the audio circuit?
A kind of funny thought — maybe something that was supposed to be grounded ended up floating, because the reporter was, uh, not in contact with the ground.
I've always wondered, is Earth's electrical ground significantly different from that of a random planet hundreds of light years away?
If two spaceships from different parts of the galaxy were ever able to meet, would they experience the biggest static electricity shock in history?
Apparently this is not an issue with terrestrial space stations, because spacecraft only accumulate something like an 80V potential as they travel through the atmosphere. But what about another star system that has sailed through who knows how many charged nebulae?
Well birds regularly charge themselves up to 100s of thousands of volts, then merrily fly back to earth with no significant effect. I think the point is the total stored charge is very small, so not much energy is transferred.
It sounds like its working as designed. It just uses the audio as a side channel to transmit telemetry data. Unless you ran the resulting video / audio through something specifically meant to remove this then even a recording is going to still contain the data.
A kind of funny thought — maybe something that was supposed to be grounded ended up floating, because the reporter was, uh, not in contact with the ground.