In this episode, AstroForge RF Engineer Max and Software Engineer Christopher break down the brutal reality of deep space comms: high-gain antennas with beam widths under half a degree, 250 dB of path loss, FCC restrictions on uplink bands, and seconds-long delays that make real-time feedback impossible. They unpack what went wrong with Odin’s comms chain, what’s different on DeepSpace-2, and how we’re making our system more fault-tolerant without bloating mass or cost. From island-hopping to set up a dish to writing custom encoding schemes that survive trillion-fold attenuation, this is what reliable communication looks like; when failure isn’t theoretical, it’s orbital.

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