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Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it in the 1970s never expected we'd still be listening (spacedaily.com)
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[-] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

https://www.nasa.gov/communicating-with-missions/dsn/

The Deep Space Network is very impressive.

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