NASA's Voyager 1 probe hasn't 'spoken' in 3 months and needs a 'miracle' to save it
NASA's Voyager 1 probe hasn't 'spoken' in 3 months and needs a 'miracle' to save it
A communications glitch is preventing NASA's Voyager 1 probe — the farthest spacecraft from Earth in history — from sending home data, and mission scientists are growing concerned.
Voyager has been a success by any measure. It will be the furthest our species has ever reached to the stars and will be heralded as a pioneer of our best ambitions in the pursuit of knowledge.
Voyager wasn't a good probe, it was the best.
and will be heralded as a pioneer
That will be very confusing for Pioneer 10 :P
Have you seen this? No relation to my username but I bought it as soon as I found out about it.
See ya in the 24th century, V-ger!
23rd century. V’ger appears in Klingon territory in the 2270s.
Sadly V’ger was the fictional Voyager 6 probe.
If it's truly dead, it's a sad day for humanity. The farthest reaches into space we've ever been, and possibly ever will be. It'll just be a lonely probe wondering the cosmos, unable to phone home.
If that's the farthest we ever go, then we're a sad pathetic species that peaked in 1977.
I mean maybe, there are limitations to physics. We aren't talking science fiction here. The universe is truly much more vast than we think it is, and galaxies are all flying away from eachother. We'd be lucky if we ever even send a message to the next closest star system to ours.
Voyager 1 is not dead. It is only sleeping as it enters the final stage of its 1.5 billion year mission.
It's just a piece of equipment, so it won't "be lonely."
But I agree with everything else. It's an INCREDIBLE masterpiece, just wandering space as an indicator that we exist(ed.) Amazing!
Maybe it got picked up.
In about a thousand years, we're gonna get a fine for littering.
From the Vogons, for littering on their hyperspace expressway
Imagine if it is back online, and it keeps sending us prime numbers.
Contact is my favorite movie of all time and I watched it again a couple days ago. ❤️
You just reminded me that I should read the book by Carl Sagan. Will probably find more interesting details in the book.
I could be wrong, but didn't this originally happen because a technician sent it some wrong data? I would really hate to be that guy. Not because of anyone blaming him, I seem to recall it had self corrective measures in case that specific event happened. I just wouldn't be able to not blame myself for the loss of such a treasure.
"The people that built the spacecraft are not alive anymore," Dodd said. "We do have a reasonably good set of documentation, but a lot of it is in paper, so you do this archaeology dig to get documents."
Honestly this sounds a bit like negligence. It should be relatively easy to digitize everything and create a complete virtual simulation of the electronics including power levels and thermals so you can easily test the transmissions and programs before sending them.
What if "they" gonna bring it home like a surprise for being gone.
I'm not supposed to tell you guys this, yet, but it hit the exclusion zone barrier.
Time to let go, NASA. We had a good run. She needs to move on to another Solar System.