EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe
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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-rele…
Shared in Voyager news threads as an accessible look at the real equipment used to talk to the probes.
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3 comments from Hacker News
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 :')
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
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.