The fact that they are even still communicating with V1 is amazing.
Even if it failed Voyager will always be a sucess
Here is the amazing part of this video. Light can travel 15 Billion miles in 23 Hours. -- All these years and it still is not even a Light-Day away from us.
The little spacecraft that could.
This whole project has been carried out with so much care, passion and consideration from the start, so many top scisntists have been involved throughout, it is truly a masterpiece. So happy to see that you can still communicate with this speck navigating the unknown.
They built these so well. Amazing engineering.
My wife built some of the electronic circuit boards used in Viking I and II. I donated the soldering pencil she used to the Viking Museum. She must have done a good job of soldering.
Just imagine it, the silence of the void, emptiness, the distant light from a lightly larger star, before a large metal contraption wizzes by, deep inside of it after more that 2 decades, a distant signal reaches it and old systems long dormant fire up, starting their work and slowly the device rotates pointing towards a seemingly empty spot in space a signal set back, “back online”, before it continues to hurtle off into the empty cold void, but now with a very faint connection to home.
I imagine working on this is like fixing a 1977 Buick. But really, really remotely. Whenever we last hear from Voyager this machine is one of the greatest inventions known to humanity.
That’s great! Voyager is a great piece of technology to have survived and brought back so much information and wonder!
How cool is this? And remember, Star Wars came out that year as well!!! SO PROUD of NASA!!!! I was 17 when they landed the US on the moon and I STILL have that newspaper! Aloha
Voyager just refuses to die. When life gets tough, be like the voyager twins and the team who stands behind them.
A shout out to the engineers, technicians, and builders for this amazing craft.
This makes me so happy!! Our first travels in space are a huge success!!!!
I remember them sending these on their epic journey, Amazing.
Remarkable the team was able to overcome the budget limits imposed on them from the beginning. The launching rocket should have been a Saturn 5.
primal space animations going crazy
It's not just about the thrusters but it is the problems solved along the way taught us the most.
They did an incredible job when they designed and built this amazing craft. Much respect for them.
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