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03-15-24, 03:53 PM
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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/
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03-15-24, 04:02 PM
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That is pretty cool. Go baby go. I can imagine a million years from now this thing being found by a highly advanced civilization out there saying, "how did this low tech piece hardware get here."
 Thanks for posting.
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03-15-24, 04:59 PM
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"Eeeeek...! It lives...!!"
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03-16-24, 05:05 AM
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Quite an amazing achievement.
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03-16-24, 08:20 AM
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This remind me of a communication I have with a former "girlfriend"
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03-16-24, 10:37 PM
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Awesome!
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03-19-24, 05:56 PM
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 I feel your pain. We have all been there at one point or another.  In all seriousness, the exploits of the voyager series of probes is nothing short of astounding. The scientists and engineers who envisioned and put together some of these early probes like the Voyager series with the inherent limitations of the technology of their times were and are absolutely brilliant. Of course, newer probes are more advanced.Closer to home, kinda. I have watched video's of the Cassini-Huygen and Juno probes to our Gas Giants planets, Saturn and Jupiter, respectively and their moons. Cassini released the probe Huygen into the environment and atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Huygen transmitted data and video for almost an hour. The technology and successes that have been made with Voyager have fueled and propelled more advanced probes that continue to explore our Solar System and beyond.  I included some of the Youtube links to the Cassini and Juno missions. I hope our scientifically minded Subsim members and readers enjoy them. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pbxZGBgphuw |
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