Maybe it's on the way back.
Posted on 03/18/2018 10:41:39 PM PDT by sparklite2
NASA has just received a response from the void, and believers everywhere are losing their collective minds.
After 37 years of inactivity, the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 fired up its thrusters for the first time in nearly four decades all the way over in interstellar space.
This incredible – and unsuspected – triumph means Voyager 1 can once again communicate with Earth, from 13 billion miles away.
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IMHO, they are so excited because communication is happening Beyond out solar system and the interstellar Radiation has not been bad enough.
why is the “Miles away” counting down??
well that answers mu question as to why the miles away was decreasing!! ty...
well what I ponder is how does firing the thrusters increase the Voyagers life span? is there a electrical generation from thrust exhaust??
LOL, yes a few. 37 years to travel 19:35 light hours. 8760 hours in a year, so 1/447th of a light year in 37 years or 16550 years to travel one light year and 463423 one way for 28 light years
When I was at JPL during the time of Voyager II, the RTL (round-trip light time) from earth to the spacecraft’s location (Saturn) was 45 minutes. Voyager II’s scanning platform got stuck at its closest encounter with the planet. Sending the commands to the spacecraft, waiting for a response (with 45 minute round trip) took days to diagnose and solve the problem.
Totally unsubstantiated drivel. Whatever you're smoking - I don't want any.
Grateful prayers up for your dad!
They have to periodically reorientate the spacecraft to point the antenna towards earth.
Maybe it's on the way back.
Voyager’s response: “No freaking way the Astros won the world series.”
Bt my calculation, it’s almost two hours.
Correction: almost 20 hours. It’s 1.3 E10, not 1.3 E9.
Thank you very much.
Its one thing for a radio to wake up after all this time, but how is there any fuel aboard that thing to make a thruster fire? And how does a radio signal travel that far without (or with, for that matter) billions of watts? What an amazing machine!
And if they think we should colonize the stars, versus planets, then they apparently failed more than math! But it is revealing how much type and hype is given the latest "earth-like" planet, as if the rudimentary "earth-like" status would make colonizing feasible, and traveling even a few light years is plausible in the near future.
Directional antenna and more importantly the sensitivity and selectivity of NASA's receiver network Transmitter power is 22 watts and the power level received here on earth is 1e-19 watts
Nice sentiment, but “he’s dead, Jim.”
Voyager’s transmitter power is just 22 watts in the 8GHz range. Information is exchanged at 160 baud. The earth-based antennas are 100ft dishes with precision tracking.
Color me suspicious.
Infowars’ Moroccan-American intelligence insider was blubbering away last week about how we will all come together as humans on a united planet once we need to address the threat from space aliens. Yes, seriously.
And I wouldn’t put it past our intelligence to have fed Trump a line of bull in response to his queries about UFOs.
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