itgrrl 

the important #ArtemisII numbers from #NASA’s #DSN 🎉 👀

RANGE
412.00 thousand km

ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME
2.75 sec
 
 
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DSS-43 & DSS-34 are both communicating with #Artemis on S-band:

DSS-43 has downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm

DSS-34 has downlink and uplink

(not shown: at the time this screenshot was taken DSS-34 had downlink @ 3Mb/sec and -110 dBm & it’s uplink was transmitting @ 0.2 kW

fantastic work by everyone out at #CDSCC and the rest of the DSN 👏👏👏

Apr 7 at 12:35amWeb
Show thread1.3.6.1.4.1.615133d ago
@itgrrl megameters
Show threaditgrrl 3d ago
@xssfox
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁3d ago
@itgrrl @xssfox I live about 15km from DSS-34/43 and wonder if I could pick up the downlink from here. I don't have an S-band antenna though, I think you need a helical antenna
Show threaditgrrl 3d ago

@TerrorBite @xssfox you can pick up the downlink (well, the signal) from anything with a big enough antenna that suits the freq^ so long as you can pull out something with -110 dBm (in this instance) from the noise floor

picking up the uplink however is a little trickier… 😜
 
 
 
^ yes, big caveat 🙃

Show threaditgrrl 3d ago
@TerrorBite @xssfox or you could just head out to #CDSCC and do a Dr Ellie Arroway… 💁‍♀️
Show threadTerrorBite 🦁3d ago
@itgrrl @xssfox I believe I'm on the wrong side of a mountain range to pick up the uplink from home, but if I felt like mountain climbing I could probably get close enough to pick up the uplink from outside the beam, just from RF leakage.
Show threaditgrrl 3d ago
@TerrorBite @xssfox I think you’ll be more likely to have some luck when DSS-43 is Tx to VGR2 as the power will be much higher – they were only Tx @ 0.2 kW to ArtemisII from DSS-34