From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!npoiv!houxm!ihnp4!ihldt!bnp
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: RE: Pioneer 10 Transmissions
Article-I.D.: ihldt.1575
Posted: Wed Apr 27 17:05:45 1983
Received: Thu Apr 28 04:40:09 1983


	As the Pioneer spacecraft leaves the solar system, it will
be capable of transmitting data, but will the receivers tracking it
be able to receive the data?  I would imagine the signal strengths
involved in radio astronomy are less, but are the tracking stations
used for Pioneer, equipped to work with the increasingly weak signals
from the spacecraft?  At what range will contact be lost?

				Bruce Peters
				BTL - Naperville, Ill.