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Today Voyager 1 is sending telemetry via Station 14 in California’s Mojave Desert, one of the Deep Space Network’s 70-meter diameter tracking antennas, to the handful of engineers responsible for the craft.
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Doody, D. (2009). Spacecraft Attitude Control. In: Deep Space Craft. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89510-7_3
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