Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments

[Admin]

Following a technical error in November 2023, NASA's deep-space explorer has resumed full science operations.

Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments : Read more

 

[richlightyear]

Having traveled 15 billion miles, it is now still only .0025 light years away. The universe is a pretty big place.

 

[CrispyBokeh]

Oh, I didn't know. I thought it was pretty much at the edge of the universe already, and that space was tiny

 

[billslugg]

Voyager 1 is at the edge of the explored universe.
Space is tiny until Dad makes you shuck enough sweet corn to fill a bushel basket.

 

[CrispyBokeh]

Voyager 1 is at the edge of the explored universe.
Space is tiny until Dad makes you shuck enough sweet corn to fill a bushel basket.

I was being sarcastic to the first comment. But also, no, it's not at the edge of the explored universe - unless you mean with a physical spacecraft. JWST has explored far further.

 

[yossarian22]

This is the energizer bunny of space crafts. It just keeps going and going even when NASA believes they have heard the last from it. Pretty good for a vessel with the computing power that's less than the average electronic car key of today.

 

[DanielJ]

Except now it wants to be referred to as 'Vger'.

 

[NapmasterG]

Except now it wants to be referred to as 'Vger'.

Oh that’s just great…and my daughter’s name is Ailea…and she wants to be astronaut…

 

[Questioner]

Voyager 1 would be an excellent place to measure the orbit diameters of Solar system planets using its distances to and trigonometry with angles from the background stars.

A fine place to differentiate if any discrepancies of distance occur from mass field internal frames of reference (we measure) and its more largely mass field external frame of reference.

Keep that 46 y/o puppy 'right now' relevant,
with informative experiments.

Come on people, let’s do some science.

 

[Jambo Bwana!]

Oh that’s just great…and my daughter’s name is Ailea…and she wants to be astronaut…

That is awesome. I am a die hard star trekker.

 

[Questioner]

Do they have to speed up signal frequencies to communicate with Voyager 1 due to our time dilation so far inside to the Sun's mass field?

 

[Elofson]

Launched 47 years ago and still working. Nuclear energy is fantastic.

 

[bwana4swahili]

And I have trouble keeping a computer running for longer than five years...

 

[johnchristie]

Following a technical error in November 2023, NASA's deep-space explorer has resumed full science operations.

Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments : Read more

Yes and I believe that all things being equal it will take a further 17,766 years to travel one light year!

 

[ibjim]

Having traveled 15 billion miles, it is now still only .0025 light years away. The universe is a pretty big place.

You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space​