inari@piefed.zip to Space@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agoVoyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening spacedaily.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1111arrow-down10
arrow-up1111arrow-down1external-linkVoyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening spacedaily.cominari@piefed.zip to Space@beehaw.orgEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square31linkfedilink
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·3 months agoKinda puts the huge distances into a bit of perspective. How difficult is it to pick up that kind of signal? I struggle to get WiFi in the garden.
minus-squareLastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·3 months agohttps://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/ The Deep Space Network is very impressive.
Kinda puts the huge distances into a bit of perspective. How difficult is it to pick up that kind of signal? I struggle to get WiFi in the garden.
https://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/
The Deep Space Network is very impressive.