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I highly doubt an amateur has the means to contact the probes. Heck, I'm not even sure any organization besides NASA has antennas big enough for the job.
by boricj 3y ago
I highly doubt an amateur has the means to contact the probes. Heck, I'm not even sure any organization besides NASA has antennas big enough for the job.
- dtgriscom 3y agoYou don't think a modified DirecTV antenna will do it?
- boricj 3y agoOver 20 billions of kilometers away? I'm not a RF engineer, but it's a fair guess that synthesizing the signal isn't going to be the problem, having the probes receiving it is another story.
- raverbashing 3y agoIf it's sarcasm I'm failing to detect with my l/4 antenna but no And it should beg the question: why do you think DirecTV managed to use the smaller antennas ;)
- swexbe 3y agoThe Russians, or the Chinese.
- ravenstine 3y agoMaybe, but what would they gain by this exactly? Aha! Now you'll have to wait another 40 years to collect information from deep space! Take THAT, Americans!
- paulddraper 3y ago> Maybe, but what would they gain by this exactly? It's called the Space Race for a reason.
- ravenstine 3y agoIt'd be one thing if those probes remained in near-space. There are of course advantages to a country having its own exclusive information strategically and possibly for future space-mining. Deep space is quite literally as far away from that as it gets. There's no realistic mission that far out in our lifetime or the lifetimes of our great grand children that will have any realistic return for a nation beyond pure exploratory interest. If Russia or China are really interested in objects far outside our solar system, they're probably better off sitting back and letting NASA do it, given that they don't have to wait decades to do so. Something tells me that neither of them actually cares, though.