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Current interests : Use the SETI @ Home and Astropulse source codebase (or related open source codebases) to detect and decode Voyager I & II telemetry, and later on or simultaneously the telemetry of the New Horizons Pluto-Charon mission. Once the software codebase for doing so has been perfected move on adapting the codebase to the New Horizons mission that has similar transmission complexities. The Deep Space Network antennas, especially the 70-m antennas, which provide most of the collecting area, are getting older and are becoming less reliable than desired. Further, it is difficult for the 70-m antennas to provide reliable operation at 32 GHz (Ka-band), where there is a 500-MHz-wide spectrum allocation compared to only 50 MHz at 8 GHz (X-band). In future there may be a need for support for more deep-space missions, and also a need for increasing data rates from these missions. This means there may be a need for more sensitivity [A/T, where A is antenna effective collecting area and T is system temperature] at both X and Ka space communication bands. Therefore, it may be necessary not only to replace the aging antennas but also to increase the overall sensitivity (A/T) of the DSN.
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