[gregorkas]

I imagine that with cracking the protocol with 39 hours return time... it would be a challenge.

[FireBeyond]

At a mammoth 16bps...

And then the 20kW+ transmitter you'd need...

[AnssiH]

I think Voyager data rate is 160bps (when I last saw it at https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html ).

[mark-r]

It wouldn't surprise me if they've been reducing the data rate as the signal strength weakens.

[AnssiH]

Yep. But looks like Madrid is receiving data right now from VGR1 and the page says "159.00 b/sec".