#DSS14 has just finished transmitting a sequence of 16 commands to 1. The start of their 20 hour 25 minute journey. On completion, the uplink frequency was "flicked " to help condition the receiver tracking loop capacitor. Remote maintenance at the extreme
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What's the power of the signal by the time it gets to Voyager?
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Yeah, I was just wondering what the signal strength at the antenna was and what kind of codec is used for error correction, etc. I'm assuming the SNR must be insanely low.
You can get some of that information from DSN Now: eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
For instance a dish at Tidbinbilla in Australia is currently talking to & you can see the data rate & power from the downlink. Can't remember if it shows transmit power when sending.
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Oh here you go - this is a Goldstone dish talking to the Indian MOM spacecraft at Mars and that has the transmit power. They split it into up and down signal (and the icons have two waveforms in the animation when it's bidirectional).
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