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Apparently the signals from Voyager have a "received power 20 billion times weaker than that of a digital wristwatch."[0] The DSN website is a really good read
by jacobwilliamroy 8y ago
Apparently the signals from Voyager have a "received power 20 billion times weaker than that of a digital wristwatch."[0]
The DSN website is a really good read. Along with supercooling the amplifiers they also use "special techniques to encode signals so the receiving system can distinguish the signal from the unwanted noise."
[0] - https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/about/ https://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/about/