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Voyager 1 is still in contact using a nominal 23W, despite being over 13 billion miles away and heading further out at over 10 miles per second.



Since it launched in 1979, have software updates improved the error correcting codes in Voyager's radio communications?


That was done in 1989 with an update to Reed Solomon Viterbi – Version 2.

https://sourceforge.isae.fr/projects/simplified-communicatio...




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