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Subject: Voyager 1 spacecraft

Written By: Mr_80s on 11/07/03 at 01:20 p.m.

For those that may have missed this, Voyager 1 is about to leave the Solar system.

Launched in 1977, it is now over 13.5 BILLION kilometers from the Earth, and is now entering deep space.  It contains a laserdisk (remember those?  like a super-sized DVD) with greetings and information on Earth.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3245677.stm

Subject: Re: Voyager 1 spacecraft

Written By: Dagwood on 11/07/03 at 01:46 p.m.

That's cool.  Thanks for posting it. :)

Subject: Re: Voyager 1 spacecraft

Written By: Secret_Squirrell on 11/10/03 at 11:41 p.m.

Hey Mr.80s, i've been following the progress of those two probes, plus their progenitors Pioneer 10 and 11, since the 1970's.  I can remember watching live, unprocessed video footage downstreaming from NASA Select TV in '89 as Voyager passed Neptune.  Somewhere, my astronomy-buff roommate has a couple of video tape recordings of it.

Now she's nearing the heliopause which is going to bring in some interesting data.  She's a hell of a way out there, eh? 90 A.U. (about twice the distance Pluto is away from the Sun).  Very cold and very dark.  Last temperature readings placed them at the bottom of their scales --which is about 22 Kelvin and the Sun is only a bright speck in the sky.

Interesting to think that we now cannot generate enough signal gain to send commands to the spacecraft but that the craft will still be sending data until the RTG's run out of power in 2020.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0204/09voyager/voyager.jpg

Image from: http://spaceflightnow.com