Voyager Definition and 41 Threads

After 5 months of sending a repeating loop of meaningless bits, the 46 year old Voyager 1 is back to sending actual data. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/world/voyager-1-communication-issue-cause-fix-scn/index.html The NASA engineering team fixed it

13 minutes of background and findings by the Voyager spacecraft s, at the popular level. Rather well done. Cheers, Tom

An interesting article on some of the history of, and discoveries by, the 44+ year old Voyager spacecraft s. The bean counters originally planned a 4 year mission for Voyagers 1&2. However, the scientists and engineers involved saw a golden opportunity that wouldn't repeat for another 176...

Is there a possibility of a celestial body colliding with the Voyager spacecraft ? Is there an alternative to the Voyager that runs faster and faster? For example, at a speed of 100 kilometers per second

The interstellar spacecraft Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and left the solar system to reach the endless interstellar space in 2012. It is now 2021. Voyager 1 has been sailing in space for 44 years. Why does it still have energy to send electromagnetic signals back to the earth? What does...

With voyager 2 now going to interstella space what have we learned?

I was looking at this article about the craft, and it seems to be that had the craft been sent in the other direction, it would still be within the heliosphere, but instead had a fortunate path to where the heliosphere was small. What I mean by "lucky" is that the planets just happened to be...

Hey everyone, I've recently programmed an animated simulation of the main elements (core planets and Sun) of our solar system: by using the initial coordinates from the JPL database, and then calculating the combined gravitational perturbations and the relativistic effects from the Sun...

I haven't seen any posts about it but I am curious to know how far are the probes from Earth... Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Pioneer 10 Pioneer 11 Do they have any chance of colliding with an object?

I've been reading that Voyager 2 is scheduled to pass by Sirius in about 300,000 years. Other sources state it is destined to orbit the Milky Way for billions of years. I don't understand how it can be headed toward a specific direction and orbiting the center of the galaxy at the same time.

For how long will we still be able to communicate with the amazing Voyager 1?

Please could someone explain why Earth looks to bright when it is so far away? Also, why can't we see any other objects (other planets and stars) in the image? Thank you.

From what I can gather, Voyager 1 is headed in the direction of Sagittarius and the center of the Milky Way. Will Voyager 1 eventually get sucked into the black hole at the center? Furthermore, where is the Earth within the Milky Way in terms of up/down? The galaxy is 1,000 LY thick, but how...

Greetings! I read this article on line, where it states that Voyager 1 has an appointment with a star, AC +79 3888, which is 17.6 light years away, in 40,000 years. However, if voyager is traveling at 35,000 mph, that number seems off. Shouldn't it be 319,000 years to travel that distance? I'm...

So, I did a little searching around on these forums before I posted this, and I do see lots of threads about working for NASA but not something about my specific situation. I'm currently attending a college working on my AA. After that, I'm probably going to transfer to a University, where I'll...

The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records which were included aboard both Voyager spacecraft , which were launched in 1977. My question is will be good enough now, won't the radiation damage the CD, can it be read, if at all it reaches some ET Arun

Remember Voyagers? Travelling through the endless void of space, carrying the species-scale equivalent of teenage poetry etched onto what is called the Golden Record. Full of naive hope and good intentions, cute to think of, but increasingly embarrassing to look at, it was sent in an...

IMHO, the best stories, Watched all of the Capt Jean Luc Picard and sometimes fell asleep. Never a dull moment with Capt Janeway. And they have 7 of 9 who has a great figure. Love her acting! Better physician on board. Tuvok as good as Spock. Chapters are almost always related.

Still going after 36 years. Voyager surfs Solar System's edge By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23075332

Hi there. Just been reading about Voyager 1 and it's current progress. Wow. Totally incredible. I mean this is seriously a contender for mankind's greatest feat of science and engineering, isn't it? Anyway. I want to read more and in a book - not on the internet. Can anyone recommend a...

She's 35 years old today. So where is she now?

Per NASA's press release ( http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/voyager20120614.html ) of 14 June 2012, interstellar cosmic rays are striking the spacecraft at an increased rate. Voyager 1 has already encountered solar wind moving laterally with respect to the solar surface, and even in...

I would like to understand how units of distance, time and mass are defined on the golden record on Voyager spacecraft . I suppose the units are similar to natural units (speed of light=Planck constant=1), except that the basic unit is not GeV: The unit of energy is the energy...

The Voyager probes are traveling at non-relativistic speeds, at the edge of the solar system where the gravitational field is about 0 so we could consider them a rest frame. If so, from my calculations using the formula for time dilation: \tau(t) = \frac{c}{g} \operatorname {arsinh} \left(...

I just want to make sure I understand this clearly. Light travels at 186 000 miles/second right? So if something was 10 light years away would that mean that it would take 10 years going at the speed of light to get there? Wouldnt it be possible to make a probe go even half that speed? I don't...

Voyager 2 Hijacked!(on news) How is this possible? is this real http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/7722455/Aliens-hijack-Nasas-Voyager-2- spacecraft -claims-expert.html

I seem to remember hearing that there is some question about the orbits of the voyager spacecraft and weather they obey Newtonian mechanics exactly. Can someone please fill me in on the details? Thanks.

Could the anomalous acceleration of the voyager spacecraft towards the sun be explained by its surface becoming electrically charged by friction with dust particles and the interaction of the electric charges with the sun's magnetic field?

will either of the voyager probes pass the heliopause before they run out of power. if so when will it happen?

I heard that we are still receiving data from the voyager missions. Are the results available publicly? If so, where can I find the latest photos?

Spacecraft Voyager 2 (of mass m and speed v relative to the Sun) approaches the planet Jupiter (of mass M and speed V relative to the Sun) as shown in Fig. 10-60. The spacecraft rounds the planet and departs in the opposite direction. What is its speed, relative to the Sun, after this...

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060523_heliosphere_shape.html So if it does get will we still have contact with it

Voyager 2 used a slingshot maneuver to approach Saturn and then move off in the opposite direction.Voyager 2 approached Saturn with a velocity of 12 Kms^-1. (relative to the sun). The orbital speed of Saturn is 13 Kms&-1. The question is what was Voyager 2's speed after the slingshot encounter...

http://www.planetary.org/voyager_hubble/

Someone posted this in another forum... http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0206/heliosphere_pc_big.jpg Its suppose to depict the voyager spacecraft exiting the solar system but i was wondering... what are those shockwave-ish lines suppose to represent? I mean there's nothing out...

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Voyager_1_enters_heliosheath_at_edge_of_solar_system The Voyager 1 spacecraft , launched in 1977 to explore the planets, is now agreed by scientists to have entered the heliosheath at the edge of the solar system 8.7 billion miles (14 billion kilometers) from the...

if it transmits and shuts off its transmitter, would the signal still be traveling towards earth?

The first human to surpass our galaxy may be in the form of DNA panspermia - either accidentally or on purpose - from those who worked on Voyager. What outcome would such a clone bring aliens: disease, science, savior, slave or peer?

Something struck me as confusing, and I'm sure it's just that I don't have enough information yet. The Voyager mission found MANY surprises in the planets they studied. In fact, it seems they were wrong about more than they were right about, not to mention all they found out that they simply...

Voyager the real time machine have we received a message yet? Would you know how to find the massage if it was here? I will return to finish this. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ spacecraft /goldenrec.html Many Thanks, Dj Blair Styles. 11:11

Which spacecraft is further? i know 1 of the spacecraft hit Jupiter a year later. and then went onto neptune. what i don't get is that they say when you get as far as neptune that is our solar system, we still have pluto and its moon charon in our solar system, yeah its far and it has been...