Yes, there’s a reason why wired networks will always have a place.
That can happen in the relay scenario. Can’t guarantee everything makes it during one pass, so your next attempt may be a week later when the next telecom pass happens.
What are the chances it comes back online? Some sort of no signal reboot happen or anything?
They’re frantically working through all the hail mary attempts right now. Since it can’t talk back, it’s called blind commanding. They still have some small and big hammers to throw at it, so never say never. But losing a major bird for this long when having a spacecraft emergency and prioiritiy resources from the big, big guns isn’t a good sign.
You can see that they still have antenna time on DSN right now.
DSS-36 in Canberra, Austrailia is transmitting in the blind now. They’ve had coverage like this since the emergency. One of my missions gave up a contact over the weekend so they could use the station we were allocated. It’s what you do for your sibling missions.
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Ryan, for scale… If you put one of the big boys like DSS-43 (70 meter dish) inside the rose bowl, it would look like this:
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I live in a rural Wyoming and for about 8 years we only had 6 up and 1 down and that was on a good day. The crazy thing is we would stream TV and only had occasional buffering. Installed Starlink a few years ago and we are seeing 130 down and 34 up. Bonus with Starlink is we can take it on our sailboat and it works great.
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As long as you don’t go beyond 8 miles off shore. Once you get past that they shut it down unless you are paying the big bucks for the marine package. Had it good at work for a few years until they implemented that.
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Mostly use it at the dock and day sailing. Boat is near Long Beach CA. We have been out 22 miles to Catalina Island and it worked fine. I guess they don’t consider that offshore since it’s still CA.
On another note I had my computer guy install a TPLINK router or switch not sure what you call it. It combines the Starlink and the copper land line we still have together when they are both hooked up. When we go to the boat with the Starlink the DSL is still connected so we still have smarthome features running.
I know that you guys have been talking about WIFI. I thought I would mention we have the TPLINK DECO mesh system one main wired unit and three others and it has worked very well. I have great signal anywhere on our property and then some.
I’m not super tech savvy but I know enough to really screw things up!
That can hear an ant fart from at least 10 miles away.
That is so big, I can not fathom how weak of a signal that must be listening for, or how large the wave is, whichever way that works.
That is what I ended up with. I am not super excited about the app only part but the rest is so far and above the older asus router they are replacing. Even just the test run with the new single router sitting on the floor in the corner 40 feet further away and behind 8 3d printers on steel racks, the signal was dramatically better on the wifi.
Then I hardwired the backhaul to the shop so now I have STA mode on my CNC finally!!!
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FINALLY!!!
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Weak. At the moment as I type this, two of the “small” (34 meter!) dishes in Canberra are working together to listen to Voyager 2, which is out beyond our solar system, beyond the heliopause out in interstellar space.
Voyager 2 is presently 21.3 billion km from earth, and it’s round trip light time is 1.64 days.
Those two antennas an their exceptional RF front ends and incredible receivers are only able to lock up and decode data from Voyager 2 at around 160 bits per second. (They are not in lock at the moment, I’ll see what they lock up at as I don’t recall the VGR2 nominal rates)
Your ant fart at 10 miles away is pretty accurate.
Edit: That’s a ping time of 141,696,000 milliseconds.
That’s an omen.
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I feel for ya running all the wires. We owned an industrial supply store That was in a 16,000sqft building. I probably ran close to 4 spools of CAT6 in there. My computer guy told me years later that I could have used some switches and used a lot less cable. I pretty much ran a cable for every device, AP’s’, cameras, 2 POS systems, etc. He did tell me it was more stable so there’s that.
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That’s a small treasure worth of copper. Serious bandwidth.
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The app On the DECO system is definitely lame. I have had the system act up and not work when there was an update that needed downloaded which I thought was stupid. After that I broke my no auto update rule and turned updates on.
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The building was all steel and had multiple steel interior walls. WIFI was tough we finally had everything covered after we installed the fifth AP. WE used Motorola handhelds in there for ordering and inventory and early on you might have to step through a doorway to get them to connect so you could enter stuff. Also had to have a cell phone booster in the building.
That edge of the solar system data comes in that slow, how wild. Mankind is capable of some awesome stuff. Those probes took off so long ago, it is wild to think about the people that worked on them.
Yeah I have two switches, I might get a third just to make things easy for the next project.
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I’ve seen worse on machines running Windows ME.
But do you have cable tray? I ran more than that in my house. 
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No cable tray. All those wires were like a spider web going every direction. Not a big job but alot of work for me. There were three office’s, Two POS systems opposite ends of the building and the com room was upstairs. The roof inside is 23’ high at the peak so running some of those were sketchy.
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I might have run some sketch cable runs in my day. Not that I admit to any of them.
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