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		exitb on April 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA's Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updat... > The two Voyager spacecraft could remain in the range of the Deep Space Network through about 2036 It would be quite depressing if it was us failing to receive a fainter signal, rather than Voyager failing to send it.

gpvos on April 24, 2024 [–]

I think the reverse would be more depressing. There will inevitably come a time when the signal will be indiscernible from the background noise.

wolverine876 on May 1, 2024 | [–]

Is that strictly true? Doesn't it depend on the signal processing power of the receiver?

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