Regulatory Limits on Uplink Bands and Why We Can't Transmit From the U.S.

In this episode, AstroForge RF Engineer Max and Software Engineer Christopher break down the brutal reality of deep space comms: high-gain antennas with beam widths under half a degree, 250 dB of path loss, FCC restrictions on uplink bands, and seconds-long delays that make real-time feedback impossible. They unpack what went wrong with Odin’s comms chain, what’s different on DeepSpace-2, and how we’re making our system more fault-tolerant without bloating mass or cost. From island-hopping to set up a dish to writing custom encoding schemes that survive trillion-fold attenuation, this is what reliable communication looks like; when failure isn’t theoretical, it’s orbital.

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