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Most distant catch for ESA station

• raverbashing 10y ago
  So, they're matching the capabilities of DSN (Deep Space Network)? But it's a good reminder of how not trivial this is, even though it looks easy
• maxander 10y ago
  > We had to upgrade some software at ESOC, as we discovered that one file used for pointing the antenna did not have enough digits to encode the full distance to Cassini I'd bet this means they had to upgrade to a 64-bit executable since their old 32-bit software couldn't represent 1.4 trillion meters.
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