Comments on: You’re Watching DSN https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/10/youre-watching-dsn/ Brian Koberlein Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 By: Jean Tate https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/10/youre-watching-dsn/#comment-3853 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 01:32:16 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5893#comment-3853 Great blog post, as usual! Thanks.

Earthly factors can also limit the ability of a DSN station to communicate: thunderstorms and high winds surely hinder a station’s ability to stay in touch, as does heavy snow (though I guess that’s rarely a problem).

What happens when lightning strikes a radio dish? Does the receiver (at the focus) get fried?

]]> By: jpatrick https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/10/youre-watching-dsn/#comment-3851 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:51:24 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5893#comment-3851 Thanks to this, we are still able to receive transmissions from Voyager 1 and 2.

]]> By: Brian Koberlein https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/10/youre-watching-dsn/#comment-3850 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:32:15 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5893#comment-3850 Space satellites would be more difficult to maintain, and not really be any better. Radio waves reach the surface of the Earth just fine. The only way to really improve is to have more redundancy and better electronics for the current ground-based system.

]]> By: Zach D.Moore https://briankoberlein.com/2016/04/10/youre-watching-dsn/#comment-3849 Sun, 10 Apr 2016 17:03:45 +0000 https://briankoberlein.com/?p=5893#comment-3849 Mr.Koberlien Sir.would it or could it be possible to place communication satellites in orbit around the planets in our solar system as a.way of bouncing radio signals back and forth between them as a fast a better way of communicating with uunmanned space craft such as Hubbel and the Kepler space telescopes?

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