Voyager: 35 Years Later

Mon Aug 20, 2012 10:55 pm » by **WillEase666**

Published on Aug 20, 2012 by JPLnews

Thirty-five years ago today, Aug. 20, 2012, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to have visited Uranus and Neptune and the longest operating NASA spacecraft ever. Voyager 2 and its twin Voyager 1 that launched sixteen days later on Sept. 5, 1977, are still going strong, hurtling away from our sun. Mission managers are eagerly anticipating the day when they break on through to the other side -- the space between stars.

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Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:26 pm » by **The57ironman**

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...sorry , will , i ain't buyin' it...

....20 watts .....11 billion miles .....in 16hrs.....

Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:29 pm » by **Slith**

Good post. Didn't realise it had been that long

Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:33 pm » by **ZetaRediculous**

The57ironman wrote:.

...sorry , will , i ain't buyin' it...

....20 watts .....11 billion miles .....in 16hrs.....

The radio signal sent back by Voyager is at the speed of light (186282miles per second)

16hr = 57600 seconds

multiplied together is- 10729843200 mile in 16hrs.

The math certainly adds up. :flop:

Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:56 pm » by **Webhead**

i got a job to get 1 miles on 50watt cb radio , wow they must be more powerfull ,i wonder why i havent got a 20 watt voyager cb radio lol.

and whats powering that thing solar nuclear ,or duracel.

Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:00 am » by **WillEase666**

Webhead wrote:i got a job to get 1 miles on 50watt cb radio , wow they must be more powerfull ,i wonder why i havent got a 20 watt voyager cb radio lol.

and whats powering that thing solar nuclear ,or duracel.

Plutonium
http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/ ... tlife.html

Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:04 am » by **WillEase666**

ZetaRediculous wrote:
The radio signal sent back by Voyager is at the speed of light (186282miles per second)

16hr = 57600 seconds

multiplied together is- 10729843200 mile in 16hrs.

The math certainly adds up.

Indeed it does... :flop:

Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:05 am » by **ZetaRediculous**

Webhead wrote:i got a job to get 1 miles on 50watt cb radio , wow they must be more powerfull ,i wonder why i havent got a 20 watt voyager cb radio lol.

and whats powering that thing solar nuclear ,or duracel.

They are nuclear powered (check out the vid, there are no Solar panels), and I doubt you have a directed high gain antenna on your Citizen Band). believe it or not even though you have difficulty getting a mile on your CB, evrything you have ever said on it, is flying away from the Earth at the speed of light too.

So if you were broadcasting 36 years ago there is a small possibility that an Alien civilisation will recieve your broadcasts a year before Voyager burns up in their atmosphere....

There is some food for thought :think:

Tue Aug 21, 2012 12:09 am » by **The57ironman**

even though you have difficulty getting a mile on your CB, evrything you have ever said on it, is flying away from the Earth at the speed of light

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Fri Aug 24, 2012 3:33 am » by **Webhead**

yes i know trouble is there probably say when hearing me theres no intelligent life where i am lol.

so in theory build me a fast machine ill go past it then listen to myself when i had hair eyesight and my own teeth. :dancing: