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Voyager 2 DSN Coverage after April 2010, Only through the Canberra DSN ...

dmuller View Member Profile	Mar 22 2009, 01:37 AM Post #1
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 ... 21 Mar 2009 30 Sep 2011 -------------------- Daniel Spaceoutreach.com - event and trajectory data, hopefully the real-time simulations may return

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jasedm View Member Profile	May 7 2010, 06:20 PM Post #2
Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655	Emily has recently posted a blog entry at The Planetary Society website, which suggests that Voyager 2 is experiencing problems with it's flight data system - I hope the issue can be resolved satisfactorily - V2 is by far my favourite spacecraft, and probably the most groundbreaking piece of space hardware ever. Long may she prevail.

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dmuller Voyager 2 DSN Coverage after April 2010 Mar 22 2009, 01:37 AM

Astro0 We may have some news on that last point soon. Fin... Mar 22 2009, 02:42 AM

jasedm Emily has recently posted a blog entry at The Plan... May 7 2010, 06:20 PM

Astro0 It's safe to say that we are in 2-way comms wi... May 8 2010, 03:58 AM

nprev Glad you guys are keeping your ear out for her, As... May 8 2010, 04:09 AM

JohnVV QUOTE Don't worry, we haven't heard the la... May 8 2010, 06:36 AM

Paolo There is a JPL release on the Voyager 2 problem: h... May 8 2010, 08:23 AM

dtolman If the flight data system ends up being unusable (... May 10 2010, 08:03 PM

Hungry4info Maybe they can conjure up some way to use tracking... May 10 2010, 09:15 PM

nprev I would imagine just being able to receive a signa... May 10 2010, 09:56 PM

cbcnasa The engineering value is there for as far as the s... May 11 2010, 04:28 PM

jgoldader This could be something relatively simple--a stuck... May 12 2010, 01:27 PM

climber You may be right Jeff: http://www.spaceflightnow.c... May 12 2010, 02:59 PM

Roby72 I remember that a few days before the Uranus encou... May 12 2010, 09:22 PM

tasp Yes, I recall the 'stuck bit' problem from... May 13 2010, 12:08 AM

nprev Kudos to the stuck-bit adherents; does appear to b... May 14 2010, 04:12 AM

MarcF Great news : the Voyager 2 problem seems to be fix... May 26 2010, 09:30 PM

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