Yourself and others interested in detail, may appreciate Daniel Estévez's recent post on his use of GNU Radio and the Allen Telescope Array to detect Voyager 1 transmissions:
No problem. Most times the bots are lost in the "who runs that?" and its pointless to look. This one happened to have been not difficult to track down. I'm curious of the answer if you get one. ... and I see that someone dug up the answer further down.
This is a lot more crowded since the last time I checked! You know I’ve been reading too much Kim Stanley Robinson when I immediately start worrying about contaminating these various celestial bodies’ surfaces...
These kinds of domains always rubbed me the wrong way. Not only does it abuse the intent of the TLD, but the dot breaks up the word in an odd place. I just imagine trying to tell someone this domain in person and it feels very awkward. Why not just go with spaceprobedata.com or spaceprobes.org, or one of the other thousands of TLDs they have now?
It seems like this is a symptom of people wanting the shortest possible domain name, similar to people refusing to use a new TLD and instead spending thousands on a .com. It's all strange to me, but maybe I'm just a rule follower who doesn't care about vanity that much.
And occasionally... you get a glimpse of something neat... like dish 43 getting data from VGR2. https://i.imgur.com/ZVAnt03.png
The downlink is 160 b/s at -154.54 dBm (as I type this - might have been different in the screen shot)... and then compare that to other data feeds on other dishes.
Everything of course only if publically available:
- Where are the probes located right now (map)?
- what is their trajectory/target location?
- what does the data look like being transmitted (I.e. Voyager isn’t more than a blip, or is it)?
- what Kind of data could be still gathered, e.g. could we ask the Probe to „take a picture“ or would the bandwidth simply not be enough?