NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause

17 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by Stratoscope
(jpl.nasa.gov)

7 Comments

waschl

14 hours ago

Are there any projects/plans to send more probes to interstellar space? I mean Voyager is great and all, but it’s old and it seems it’s days are counted. More contemporary technology could bring us farer and more data on the long run.

westurner

14 hours ago

List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_lea...

New Horizons 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons_2 :

> ~Thruster fuel cost

With commercial uplink as a service these days, what is a realistic multi-decade program cost for a deep space probe with DSN Deep Space Network or better for communications?

Could a solar sail like IKAROS or LightSail2 do Pluto or interstellar? Made of UV-resistant Lignin-Vitrimer with Lignin-derived Carbon Fiber?

Timeline of Solar System exploration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Solar_System_explo...

cowlevel

14 hours ago

There's nothing out there to see. We only keep Voyager alive to be able to say that we did.

jacquesm

12 hours ago

This is so ignorant. Voyagers are still producing good science even today, and the latest major discovery was as recent as 2020.