Voyager 1 Activated a Radio That’s Been Offline Since 1981
"Harmony in Every Heartbeat
December 4, 2024
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How are the voyager crafts powered? My guess is some sort of nuclear power like an rtg. If that is the case I wonder how long it will have enough power to send or receive signals.
Bullshit.
I often ponder the idea of them firing up the cameras Just so we can get a glimpse that far away…. If only they could figure out how to manage power supply to do so.
High gain antenna is what I’m gonna call my guitar from now on
That is awesome built in 1977 wow they couldn’t to that now they can’t ever make a fridge to last 5 year 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's been traveling for a VERY long time. Longer than 30 years even. The radio signals take 20-something hours to travel in each direction now.
There is no space. The earth is flat.
That's not how this went and is misleading, and it wasn't for some crucial maneuver and it was not the first time in 30 years that it's been able to communicate with Earth. Voyager has 2 radio transmitters and has been communicating and sending data regularly with NASA. The radio transmitters are an X-band and the other is an S-band. Voyager has been using the X-band to communicate the entire time, because it is a stronger signal that Earth can hear much better. The S-band is a weaker signal that was a back up which is why it hasn't been used since 1981. The only reason it got turned on and used is because NASA told Voyager to turn on a heater and with Voyagers weakening power supply when it tried to send a signal back via the primary X-band transmitter it over pulled on the power supply and tripped a fault protector and NASA lost contact. So NASA told it to turn on the S-band transmitter and regained communications with it. It took them literally a couple days, and only that because communications take roughly 22 hours.
They just don't build stuff like they used too
Wow! We thought it was dead.
How cool.
What was the response time since it's 30 years away?