Investigation 01 / Recorded telescope data
A signal with a home.
Can our detector recover a known human transmitter?
Ask a bounded question
Use the public Voyager tutorial observation as a known-answer test. The target is a known spacecraft transmission.
Read the waterfall
Frequency runs horizontally; time runs vertically. A narrow drifting line records the carrier's changing received frequency. Brightness is received power, not a photograph of the spacecraft.
Measure the line
The detector searches across frequency drift rates. The values below are recorded outputs; the image is the original plot from that run.
Keep the conclusion small
Recovering this carrier demonstrates one successful detection. It does not establish that every weaker or faster-drifting signal would be recovered.
What this establishes