50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
Cars That Think
APRIL 18, 2024
But by the time the signals traverse the multibillion-kilometer distance from the heliopause to Earth, their power has faded to a level 20 billion times weaker than what is needed to run a digital watch. To ensure that DSS-43 can still place the longest of long-distance calls, the antenna underwent a round of updates in 2020.
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