Voyager I rocks!

PolkThug
PolkThug Posts: 7,532
edited April 2 in Clubhouse Archives
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

Its been traveling at about a million miles a day and was built 30 years ago, badazz!
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited October 2006
    I didn't see anything in the article, but are they still receiving signals from them? Just curious how they know the things are still functioning and didn't smash into something.

    Very cool though!
    No excuses!
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,786
    edited October 2006
    Pretty good bang for the buck out of the two Voyagers. About $865 million TOTAL cost since 1972. Not bad.

    ......and was only 22 miles "off course" (and 1 second off of predicted time) as it sailed past Neptune.


    http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/didyouknow.html

    Some more interesting little facts about this vehicle.
    Sal Palooza
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited October 2006
    Thanks for that post. Guess that answers my question. WOW, they're still getting data from them.
    No excuses!
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited October 2006
    What will really make your head spin is that this thing has been traveling at tens of thousands of miles an hour for over 30 years and its just 9 billion years from earth!!! For comparison, the nearest star is 24 trillion!!!! So travelling at that **** hauling speed, it should arrive at the nearest star in only 80,000 years!!!

    Just thinking about those distances makes my brain hurt!
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