Maybe we can send a repairman out there.

Platapus · 12-13-23, 05:16 PM

Voyager 1 space craft is about 18,000,000,000 miles from Earth. Unfortunately, while the spacecraft can still receive and process instructions from Earth, it seems to have lost the capability to transmit data back to Earth.

Voyager 1 is 46 years old.

It is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Therefore, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response.

Lets hope that NASA can fix this problem.

ET2SN · 12-13-23, 07:56 PM

Wasn't this the same problem in the original Star Trek movie?

Jeff-Groves · 12-13-23, 08:59 PM

That's about the same amount of time it takes for SWMBO to respond to my resquested to throw away stuff in a cabinet we haven't used in 20 years.

Jimbuna · 12-14-23, 06:03 AM

46 years old is quite a good innings.

em2nought · 12-14-23, 07:34 AM

If we send somebody they probably won't even know how to use a rotary phone.

12-13-23, 05:16 PM	#1
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,360 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Maybe we can send a repairman out there. Voyager 1 space craft is about 18,000,000,000 miles from Earth. Unfortunately, while the spacecraft can still receive and process instructions from Earth, it seems to have lost the capability to transmit data back to Earth. Voyager 1 is 46 years old. It is so far away that it takes 22.5 hours for commands sent from Earth to reach the spacecraft. Therefore, the team must wait 45 hours to receive a response. Lets hope that NASA can fix this problem. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,461 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	46 years old is quite a good innings. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

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em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	If we send somebody they probably won't even know how to use a rotary phone. __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!

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ET2SN Ocean Warrior Join Date: Oct 2017 Posts: 2,652 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	Wasn't this the same problem in the original Star Trek movie?

12-13-23, 08:59 PM	#3
Jeff-Groves GLOBAL MODDING TERRORIST Join Date: Sep 2014 Posts: 5,649 Downloads: 137 Uploads: 0	That's about the same amount of time it takes for SWMBO to respond to my resquested to throw away stuff in a cabinet we haven't used in 20 years.