Voyager 2 DSN Coverage after April 2010, Only through the Canberra DSN ... |
Voyager 2 DSN Coverage after April 2010, Only through the Canberra DSN ... |
Mar 22 2009, 01:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 11-April 08 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 4093 |
Whilst extracting data for the "notional DSN coverage" of my realtime simulations, I stumbled over (the probably widely known) fact that from around April 2010, only the Canberra DSN station will be able to communicate with Voyager 2 as it is that far south of the ecliptic by then. At least they will get 24 hours coverage of Voyager 2! Might be a selling point to maintain and upgrade the antennas there ...
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May 8 2010, 06:36 AM
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QUOTE Don't worry, we haven't heard the last of this amazing spacecraft. that's good to hear . on a slightly diff note .That 40 bit rate ( 160 bit norm) I seam to remember hearing someplace that a very OLD 1970's computer was being kept alive to be able to read the data new computers were not able to slow down so much . and that grad students are sent out to search for parts . true or not ? |
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