voyager

At Canberra, the only active dish is a small one, receiving data at 159 b/s from Voyager 2 (!).

The record is intended as a combination of a time capsule and an interstellar message to any civilization, alien or far-future human that may recover either of the Voyager craft.

They said that if they hadn't had the earlier probes, Voyager would have been fried when it got to the system.

By the time Voyager reaches another star we'll have advanced sufficiently to have beat it there.

It would be nice if the values for the voyager and Pluto probes counted in realtime their distance instead of displaying a static number.

Both Uranus and Neptune have been visited only by Voyager 2.

It's an incredible feat to have something like this operate for decades (in the case of Voyager and Pioneer) from both a hardware and software perspective.

There's an interesting BBC documentary series on the planets, called The Planets, that has an episode covering the Voyager probes.

How could Luis and Bebe Barron guess what space sounded like - back in 1956, almost 20 years before the Voyager records - it's a mystery to me!

And Voyager 2, which doesn't have much to say, is still plugging away with a smaller Canberra antenna at 159 b/s, and a received power about that of New Horizons.

I was in my teens when Voyager was a thing, and I am really impressed with the volume, variety, and quality of the modern space probe fleet.

Didn't we lose that battle when we sent the Voyager with the Golden Record [1] that carries the exact coordinates [0] (with respect to nearest stars) to the origin of the spacecraft.

The last part of this was my favorite: "Calculations on where Voyager was headed were plotted each day on graph paper posted on the wall at JPL.

We've solved the "can we accurately and remotely steer a craft out to the edge of the solar system?" with numerous probes and robots, such as Voyager, the various Mars rovers, and others.

Their site says it's a catalog of "the active human-made machines that freckle our solar system and dot our galaxy." Obviously it's not really the "galaxy," per se, considering we only have one probe that's actually left the solar system so far (Voyager 1).

What matters is that Voyager's speed with respect to the sun is greatly increased during its interaction with Jupiter's gravitational field.

The fact that planetary science still has to contend with Voyager-era terrestrial resources is a crying shame.

Modeling Voyager's interaction with Jupiter as an elastic collision with the planet gives an incorrect answer.