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Contact with NASA's Voyager 2 probe severed by technical glitch
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| JULY 31, 2023 / 8:49 PM
| By Don Jacobson
Posted on 08/01/2023 10:56:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: cyclotic
supposed to be operational for 2-3 years That's the usual arrangement. The mission is FINANCIALLY authorized for 2-3 years. The spacecraft is designed and built to operate for five to ten times that long. There are periodic program reviews to assess the spacecraft's condition and authorize extensions of the mission if warranted.
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posted on
08/01/2023 12:30:03 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Red Badger
“Send more Chuck Berry.”
L
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posted on
08/01/2023 12:32:38 PM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: BigFreakinToad
maybe it ran into Schrodinger’s cat
Well, we won't know until we observe it
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/01/2023 12:43:51 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
To: DouglasKC
The scale of humans to space craft on the golden disc doesn’t seem right compared to the photo in post 27. Did they make us bigger to intimidate the aliens?
Also, white people. The depiction seemed fine in the ‘70’s (I seem to recall some fuss about them being naked), but now I hate that I have been trained to see the world through marxist eyes.
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:03:43 PM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:10:24 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: doorgunner69
I knew somebody would post that!................
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:11:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:16:02 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: cyclotic
It is amazing how sometimes (often?) NASA gets things right. Like the Voyagers and the Mars rovers. Keep going and going.
BTW - even though Voyager 1 is farther than Voyager 2, Voyager 2 was launched first! (I forget the story behind that). Voyager 2 took the detour to Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 took a faster, more direct route. Voyager 1 is still traveling faster than Voyager 2.
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:20:29 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
To: Red Badger; Jan_Sobieski
What about the radiation belts ? Did the cause any of this problem ? Or did someone forget to pick the Metric, Standard or British Standard ?
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:21:41 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
To: mabarker1
Keyboard coffee spill................
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posted on
08/01/2023 1:23:44 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: woodbutcher1963
I think so. Veejer (?) Or something similar. As i recall it was a woman-like “creature”.
To: Carl Vehse
I believe that the onboard processor in this sat is the legendary RCA 1802 of COSMAC ELF fame... I have an old
ELF, somewhere....
The 1802 was the very first CMOS processor...
A nice write-up is here..
https://www.cpushack.com/CPU/cpu2.html
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posted on
08/01/2023 2:05:47 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I'm homesick for a country that no longer exists...)
To: Karma_Sherab
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posted on
08/01/2023 2:10:30 PM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
To: Red Badger
The Voyager probes are absolutely amazing examples of American Know How. Viking was pretty robust as well. They actually turned Viking off so they wouldn’t have to continue spending money to support the mission. It never actually failed. I think just the daily weather reports from that craft would have been worth having.
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posted on
08/01/2023 2:39:39 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: Red Badger
Technical Glitch = Human Error
Someone sent the wrong command that adjusted the antennas 2 degrees away from craft and stopped responding now working to gain control.
The Sun UK
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posted on
08/01/2023 2:41:43 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
(....)
To: NorthMountain
Yea, I know. His current mission is many years past projections too.
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posted on
08/01/2023 3:14:56 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
To: Red Badger
Makes me think of bald extraterrestrial nymphos.
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posted on
08/01/2023 3:16:54 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
To: Red Badger
It’s only pointing at a place 435,000,000 miles from earth.
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posted on
08/01/2023 3:21:53 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
To: Paladin2
The problem is that the directional antenna on Voyager is no longer pointed at earth.
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posted on
08/01/2023 3:23:42 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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