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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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, 08:23 AM
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There is a JPL release on the Voyager 2 problem: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-151
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May 10 2010, 08:03 PM
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If the flight data system ends up being unusable (no longer able to send correctly formatted data), is the craft useful for any science anymore?
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dmuller Voyager 2 DSN Coverage after April 2010 Mar 22 2009, 01:37 AM
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MarcF Great news : the Voyager 2 problem seems to be fix... May 26 2010, 09:30 PM |
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