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Shared in Voyager news threads as an accessible look at the real equipment used to talk to the probes.
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.
“These three videos by EEVblog detail the ground based antennas and how it is contacted” (HN, 2023)
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]
Details ground antennas and how Voyager 2 is contacted.
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