Timeline for Would a Voyager spacecraft trajectory change be recognized?
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 20:33 | vote | accept | Danko | ||
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 19:41 | vote | accept | Danko | ||
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| Apr 3, 2016 at 10:36 | comment | added | Hobbes | Voyager's beam is pretty wide, yes. But the DSN antenna is very directional: it has very high gain in the direction it's looking at, and gain drops off rapidly when you go off-axis. If Voyager's signal is off-axis to the DSN antenna, I expect it soon gets lost in the noise. | |
| Apr 3, 2016 at 10:03 | comment | added | Antzi | I thought the beam was so large once it gets to earth that it didn't matter so much as long as it's pointing towards the sun... | |
| Apr 2, 2016 at 15:23 | history | answered | Hobbes | CC BY-SA 3.0 |