Re:NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover
by sliverstorm on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @12:40AM
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What are the odds we can talk them into releasing the communication frequency and protocol? If it's officially out of service, perhaps the commonwealth can take over the vigil.
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It's not easy to broadcast to mars. They use the deep space network of satellite dishes for that. I doubt it's something an amateur can do. The frequency is the X band, but I couldn't find info on the protocol.
Also Opportunity is still active and they use the same protocol, and they probably won't want you messing with that :)
Re:NASA to abandon Spirit Mars Rover
by asadotzler on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:26AM
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It's not just the people that are short here, it's the time on the Deep Space Network. There are lots of projects competing for time and this one has simply, and rightly, (though sadly) fallen off the list.