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teehuis t1_jdakp4w wrote

Reply to comment by danielravennest in A New Mission Will Search for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri by Aeromarine_eng

But how do we control these at such great distances since it takes Looooooong to get a signal back and forth. Like a couple minutes delay is a bit different from a couple months delay

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danielravennest t1_jddsu44 wrote

You don't. You program them ahead of time. We rarely send commands to the Voyagers any more. They are a light-day away. Mostly we just point a Deep Space Network dish at them at the expected time, and collect the data.

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