V’ger Ping!....................
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977.
Spacecraft: they don’t make ‘em like they used to, do they?
It would reach Alpha Centauri in another…73,000 years or so, if it was pointed in that direction..
I think it would be fair to say that wherever Voyager I is at any given moment is humanities furthest foray into the universe.
It is so exciting. Fhis stuff should make every American beam with pride!
And all designed before NASA’s number one goal was to make Muslims feel good about themselves and saturate the whole agency with woke DEI bullcrap.
The speed of light limitation is a problem for long distance travel. 186k miles/sec is snail’s pace in cosmic terms.
I’ve mentioned the website Behind The Black before. The website creator/author has been writing and reporting on all things space, aerospace, rocketry, and much more for decades.
He tells it like it is when the joke of woke science rears its head.
He has reported extensively on the amazing journeys of both Voyagers.
Below are some links to his Voyager reporting.
Voyager 1
https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Voyager+1
Voyager 2
https://behindtheblack.com/?s=Voyager+2
Also, here is a short video about the amazing computers on both Voyagers. The longest continually running computers in history.
The video talks about the Viking Orbiter - it used the same Command Computer Subsystem (CCS) as the STILL FUNCTIONING Voyagers.
Amazing
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZPHKBcdhk
Stephen Hawking was asked, “If there are other intelligent species in the universe, why haven’t they tried to contact us?” He replied, “The universe is vast, and other life forms, if they exist, are simply too far away.”
I’ll shamelessly toot my Dad’s horn yet again! The two Voyager spacecraft are powered by the Radioisotope Thermal Generator” power plants that Dad’s team built. They did all the R&D, design, testing, qualification, construction and integration of the power plant onto the spacecraft. And they are STILL powering the birds all these years later.
WTG, Dad! Well done.
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Of course if it needs an oil change, we can just send one of those “tic Tac” crafts out to it. It will be there in 15 minutes.
I can’t fully understand how something can’t go faster than the speed of light.
Guess it’s good to know some place in space someone spots a UFO to makes the spotters here feel better.
American Made
Those were the days, as I type on my Chinese IPad.
I wonder what Voyager is heading toward...? I guess it’s still on the same bearing as during the last “fly by,” whatever it was.
It would be super cool to build an ion engine spacecraft, which we can right now, and speed it up to catch up with Voyager 1.