Schematic of the Voyager spacecraft

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Apr-2025 12:52:33 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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   Interestingly, the NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft is downloading data to Earth at the same 160 bps rate over X-band as the Parker Solar Probe, but using the larger 70m dish at DSN Madrid and a larger 3.7m antenna on the spacecraft.

   However Voyager 1 is 24.9 billion km from Madrid, 157 times farther then the Parker Solar Probe.

   Receive power = 10^-22 kW for both spacecraft.

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