It takes 20+ hours so since the announcement and now they could have send a command and gotten a response
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Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months agoHow do we know that it’s receiving commands fine? I am assuming pinging Voyager 1 might take a while.
duplexsystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It takes 45 hours and that’s a good question.
Perhaps there are multiple distinct channels with one for command responses and another for scientific data?