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The Deep Space Network

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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Voyager - The Boomer of Spaceships

The 70-meter dish at CDSCC here is one of the most sensitive radial dishes out there. It's currently at 3.90 times 10 to the minus 20 second kilowatts, which is 22 billion times weaker than the power of a tiny watch battery. If you're listening and you're not here to see these things, they look sort of quite industrial. The scale of them is huge... made up of what looks almost like shipping containers at the base and then it goes up into this incredibly refined instrument.

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