We stumbled across an excellent blog post by Newfoundland, Canada-based Bethany Downer explaining deep-space communication in non-technical language. To be sure, we asked ESA ground station engineer Daniel Firre to take a look. Daniel replied: “Well written, simple, concise and correct.” #1MinuteSpaceSci Well worth a read!
Communicating to Deep Space: Radio Waves
How do we communicate with deep-space using radio waves?