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danielravennest t1_jddsu44 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:55 PM

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

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.