V-GER PING!................
And Boeing couldn’t fix their thrusters 200 miles overhead!
“While those steps have worked to reduce power, they have also led to the spacecraft growing colder, an effect compounded by the loss of other non-essential systems that produced heat.”
Easy solution: Have the spacecraft face the sun. Only problem out there is figuring out which star is the sun, since they all look similar.
Come to think of it, never mind.
Voyager: it has been faithful to its name. American ‘can do’ from a time before the politicians were able to ruin us.
Voyager 1 is traveling at over 38,000 mile per hour. If it were traveling toward Proxima Centauri, the nearest star outside our solar system, it would take 73,000 years to get there.
As I have mentioned previously, visit https://behindtheblack.com
For all things space, aerospace, science, etc from a decidedly none woke, real science and truth.
The two Voyagers have the longest running computers in history. AND, those computers have magnetic tape; not exactly 8-track, but one can joke.
Behind the Black also has compilations of things like The Blacklisted. There are new posts every day.
Now imagine these stupid movies where people are suspended while the craft travels hundreds of years through space. Absurd fantasy. The reality? Things break down.
Amazing piece of equipment
JPL has always been an amazing place and a point of great engineering pride for the USA.
BS
NASA has always given us our money’s worth, IMHO. The Mars rovers are more than impressive.
Congratulations to Caltech-JPL for the job well-done...
FTA: the thrusters has become clogged with silicon dioxide
This is a common issue with Honda Accords....
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