EEVblog
2 HN recommenders · recommended in 3 months, 2023–2024
19:59 · 71K views · Jun 5, 2023
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.
Shared in Voyager news threads as an accessible look at the real equipment used to talk to the probes.
3 comments from Hacker News
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]
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 :')
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.