Yeah totally. Here's a nice video on what NASA uses to communicate with it: ▶ this video Not something you'll put in your backyard :')
in “NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause” · View on HN
EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2023–2024.
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EEVblog interviews Richard Stephenson of NASA's Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex about how the 70m DSS-43 dish is used to contact Voyager 2. It covers the ground antenna and low-noise receiver side of deep space communication. This is a 2023 re-release of a 2017 video.
Shared in Voyager news threads as an accessible look at the real equipment used to talk to the probes.
“These three videos by EEVblog detail the ground based antennas and how it is contacted”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
Yeah totally. Here's a nice video on what NASA uses to communicate with it: ▶ this video Not something you'll put in your backyard :')
in “NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause” · View on HN
These three videos by EEVblog detail the ground based antennas and how it is contacted: EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe: ▶ this video EEVblog 1547 (Part 2) - PINGing the Voyager 2 Space Probe!: [link] EEVblog 1547 (Part 3) - Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex: [link]
in “NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2” · View on HN
Dave from EEVBlog just visited a facility communicating with Voyager 2: ▶ this video [link] There's a part 3 with a tour of the complex.
in “NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2” · View on HN