How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 1)

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7373737373 · 2023-04 · Recommendation

Video recommendation: How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe ( [VIDEO] ) and Pinging The Voyager 2 Probe ( [LINK] ) by EEVDiscover

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misterS · 2018-08 · Recommendation

Dave Jones of EEVBlog has a nice series of videos talking to Richard Stephenson, Operations Supervisor at the DSN's Canberra site. How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe: Part 1: [VIDEO] Part 2: [LINK] Part 3: [LINK] (the playlist is a mess, and videos are unordered) There are also a couple of Behinde the Scenes videos.

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mk_stjames · 2024-04 · Reference

Well, we need much more on our end than the power of a cellular signal- For instance, one of the support antenna dishes of the Deep Space Network is DSS-42 in Canberra... which is a 70 meter diameter parabolic dish. And the transmit power on our side is in the tens of kilowatts. Literally tens of thousands of times more power needed than a cell phone and directed by a 70 meter dish.... We need that because the dish on the Voyager probes is 'only' 3.7 meters. Still... not a cell phone antenna. That said, the transmit power of the Voyagers is tiny in comparison to ours and it is closer to that of the cell phone analogy- still more, however, at about 23 watts [1]. So, our end task of receiving that, by the time it gets to us, is damn impressive indeed I think. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [LINK]

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