Serious n00b question - how do spacecrafts like New Horizon transmit images back to NASA? I mean what medium of communication, what protocol etc?
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
NHPC is New Horizons. At the moment they are on one very large dish in Canberra Australia, with a data rate of 2.11 kb/sec.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunication...