Cool video, thanks! They also mention this website[1] where you can see the status of the whole DSN live, what antennas in what locations are communicating with what spacecraft, with signal strengths and transmit powers and bitrates and all.
They mentioned that the received signal from the Voyager spacecraft is actually stronger than the signals from several closer craft, because the Voyagers have such good antennas.
The videos of their decoder screen brings back memories of doing very similar things with oilfield tools. The same sorts of techniques are used to get data from deep below the earth, though not with RF but mud pulse telemetry instead. Same digital encoding types and decoders. I got to work with the guys who designed all of the telemetry systems and wrote the decoders for that stuff too.
They mentioned that the received signal from the Voyager spacecraft is actually stronger than the signals from several closer craft, because the Voyagers have such good antennas.
The videos of their decoder screen brings back memories of doing very similar things with oilfield tools. The same sorts of techniques are used to get data from deep below the earth, though not with RF but mud pulse telemetry instead. Same digital encoding types and decoders. I got to work with the guys who designed all of the telemetry systems and wrote the decoders for that stuff too.
[1] https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html