NASA "pokes" Voyager 1 spacecraft and got a response!

Platapus · 03-15-24, 03:53 PM

For a while the Voyager 1 space craft was not able to communicate any data back to the earth. This month, however, NASA sent a different command and got a response back!

It is not fully functioning, but this gives NASA engineers something to work with.

Voyager 1 is about 15,000,000,000 miles from earth and it takes radio signals 22.5 hours to travel to the spacecraft. This means that a "conversation" between earth and Voyager 1 takes 45 hours per transmission.

Voyager 1 has been operating for 46 years.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-1-spacecraft/

03-15-24, 03:53 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,366 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	NASA "pokes" Voyager 1 spacecraft and got a response! For a while the Voyager 1 space craft was not able to communicate any data back to the earth. This month, however, NASA sent a different command and got a response back! It is not fully functioning, but this gives NASA engineers something to work with. Voyager 1 is about 15,000,000,000 miles from earth and it takes radio signals 22.5 hours to travel to the spacecraft. This means that a "conversation" between earth and Voyager 1 takes 45 hours per transmission. Voyager 1 has been operating for 46 years. https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-1-spacecraft/ __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.