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It says it will now work toward bringing Voyager's abilities to transmit science data back online to continue its original mission. The mission's sister probe Voyager 2, meanwhile, is still ...
The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.
Voyager Golden Record A child's greeting (the voice of Nick Sagan) in English recorded on the Voyager Golden Record Both Voyager space probes carry a gold-plated audio-visual disc , a compilation meant to showcase the diversity of life and culture on Earth in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by any extraterrestrial discoverer.
Engineers finally received a status update from the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after identifying the cause of the aging probe’s five-month communication issue.
The probe is expected to keep transmitting weak radio messages until at least the mid-2020s, more than 48 years after it was launched. [87] NASA says that "The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way." [93] Voyager 2 is not headed toward any particular star. The nearest star is 4.2 light-years away, and at 15.341 km ...
The Voyager program is an American scientific program that employs two interstellar probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. They were launched in 1977 to take advantage of a favorable planetary alignment to explore the two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn and potentially also the ice giants, Uranus and Neptune - to fly near them while collecting data for ...
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977, were built to last five years. They've now beamed back cosmic information for over 46 years, a feat made possible by a hardy spacecraft and a clever ...
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a global civilization. We cast this message into the cosmos ...