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Busy Signals for Deep Space Experiments
lionchild writes "Just when you hated getting those 'Network Busy' signals on your Cell Phones..imagine what it's like to deal with communications in deep space after all these years of putting satellites and probes out there into the space lanes. Check the article out on space.com
" The saddest part is the poor state that the deep space network of dishes is in, with some of the 70 meter antennae approaching their fifth decade with no repair funds on the horizon.
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Just put Ham equipment on those things, and let us do the rest...
I'm sure we could get something to work.
-twb
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How's ET supposed to phone home now?
"We call it the traffic jam," said Bill Blume, mission design manager
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