Episode 6: The Future of Deep Space Communications
Jack To The Future | Aug 12 2022 | 00:30:27
The Future of Deep Space Communications 📡🛰
This week, 9 year old Jack interviews Ed Chester, a systems engineer at Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station.
The pair talk about how satellites work, what deep space communication might look like in the future, whether we could live on other planets and what meeting Tim Peake was like! Satellites, the internet in space, lasers, time travel, ice moons, natural phenomenon, sols, alien life forms and beyond - they talk about it all!
Listen in at the link in the description or download from all major platforms from Monday 18th July.
📸 Credit to Jack To The Future - Astronaut calling his mum ❤️
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