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Pinging The Voyager 2 Probe (PART 2)

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What it is

Part two of EEVblog's visit to the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, showing the control room and how operators contact Voyager 2. It includes live data and spectrum displays.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Commenters recommend the series for hearing an operations supervisor explain how Voyager signals are actually received.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Dave Jones of EEVBlog has a nice series of videos talking to Richard Stephenson, Operations Supervisor at the DSN's Canberra site.”

    Series talking with a DSN Canberra operations supervisor about contacting Voyager 2.

    misterS, 2018-08 · Recommendation · in “Deep Space Network Now: Status of communications with our deep space explorers”

  2. “Video recommendation”

    How to contact and ping Voyager 2.

    7373737373, 2023-04 · Recommendation · in “NASA Power Hack Extends 45-Year Voyager 2 Mission Even Longer”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: voyager 2, deep space network, nasa, radio communications, canberra

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