JPL Voyager Flight Team congratulates AMSAT-DL
We received the following letter and photo from the Voyager flight team, after they received our “QSL card”:
voyager_amsat07On June 6, 2007, the Voyager Flight Team opened the photo we received in the mail from you (AMSAT-DL). Congratulations on your successful downlink acquisition of Voyager 1 at your 20 meter tracking station. Acquiring such a distant object is a remarkable achievement, especially for an amateur team. Thank you very much for your interest in Voyager.
As a token of our appreciation, please find the attached photo of our team. Voyager Flight Team Members are, from left to right, Mr. Ed Massey – Project Manager, Steve Howard – Ground Data Systems Engineer, Thomas Weeks – Attitude Control Sensors Engineer, Regina Wong – Science Processing, Larry Zotarelli – Sequence Engineer, Pearline Johnson – Finance, Jim Jaeger – Data System Engineer, Roger Ludwig – Telecom & Sequence Integration Engineer, Sun Matsumoto – System Lead & Fault Protection Engineer, Enrique Medina – Attitude Control & Electrical Power Engineer, Glenda Sherman – Secretary, Jefferson Hall – Mission Director.