IIRC, the Deep Space Network has been undergoing a planned upgrade.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Jones" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2020 10:49:04 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Sad news Was that antenna busted too? Maybe the article just had a picture of this one in it and that's what got me.confused. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 9:45 PM Zach Underwood < zunder1...@gmail.com > wrote: Steve what you are thinking about is related to the deep space network. The antenna used to connect with Voyager located in Australia had been offline for most of 2020 due to upgrade. Arecibo is not used to communicate with any space craft. https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/voyager_2_back_online/ On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 8:04 PM Steve Jones < thatoneguyst...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> There was some system that just got back in communication from a repair to this, dont recall what it was. I dont understand why these things dont get rebuilt with current technology when they suffer catastrophic failures. Maybe starlink will buy it so they can talk to the space car On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 11:44 AM Bill Prince < part15...@gmail.com > wrote: <blockquote> I've been following that story. A big shame. Maybe they will rebuild it? I have not seen much information on how important it has been. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 11/20/2020 9:30 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: <blockquote> https://physicsworld.com/a/arecibo-observatory-will-be-decommissioned-says-us-national-science-foundation/ -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com </blockquote> -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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