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Serious n00b question - how do spacecrafts like New Horizon transmit images back to NASA? I mean what medium of communication, what protocol etc?
by trequartista 11y ago
Serious n00b question - how do spacecrafts like New Horizon transmit images back to NASA? I mean what medium of communication, what protocol etc?
- maxerickson 11y agoThere seem to be lots of space enthusiasts working on Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunications_and_data_handling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunication...
- sslayer 11y agohttp://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weather-satellite-images/ http://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weath...
- smackfu 11y agoHere's the current status page for the Deep Space Network: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html NHPC is New Horizons. At the moment they are on one very large dish in Canberra Australia, with a data rate of 2.11 kb/sec.