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Voyager 1 Back Online After 5 months


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Launched in 1977, it’s now 15 billion miles from earth. It took 5 months to fix a glitch in its computers. Think about that, the computers aboard are over 47 years old, and the engineers communicate with it using 1977 computers and their ancient language from earth. A stunning achievement!

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Technology/nasa-voyager-1-spacecraft-sending-readable-data-back-earth/story?id=109572983
 

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I'm glad that they reestablished communication with Nomad and that it, and Voyager 2, are still relaying information back to Earth. Launched the same year I graduated high school and the same month I moved out of the house and out on my own at 17. I'm still about 10 miles from where I launched from, Voyager 1 is 15 billion miles away from where it launched from...Hmm.

 

Every time I hear about Voyager 1 (and 2), it reminds of the Star Trek episode with the spacecraft Nomad in it.

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Don’t you mean “V-ger”? :lol:

 

 

That is truly amazing. 15B miles. That’s 600,000 trips around Earth at the surface. :huh:

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Amazing what we built in the 50's-70's for the space program.  The F1 engines for the Saturn 5 are unable to be remade for Artemis -- Apparently no one knows how anymore - https://youtu.be/ovD0aLdRUs0?si=_fM-HN3DPHPTp1G1

 

 

Found this while looking online for some data on the F1...  F1 - Rocket Engine Scale Model kit 1/12 - Accuraspacemodels

never knew they made scale models of it nor the other's shown...

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