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EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe

EEVblog 1547 (Part 1) - Contacting the Voyager 2 Space Probe

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About this video

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.

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Shared in Voyager news threads as an accessible look at the real equipment used to talk to the probes.

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7373737373 · 2023-08 · rec

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: [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]

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wkat4242 · 2024-10 · rec

Yeah totally. Here's a nice video on what NASA uses to communicate with it: [VIDEO] Not something you'll put in your backyard :')

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sho_hn · 2023-07 · reference

Dave from EEVBlog just visited a facility communicating with Voyager 2: [VIDEO] [LINK] There's a part 3 with a tour of the complex.

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