Monday, December 4, 2017

The Absolutely Amazing Voyager 1 Spacecraft

CNN
Voyager 1 spacecraft thrusters fired up for first time since 1980
"NASA scientists needed to reorient the 40-year-old Voyager 1 -- the space agency's farthest spacecraft -- so its antenna would point toward Earth, 13 billion miles away... Tuesday [11/28/2017], engineers fired up the thrusters and waited eagerly to find out whether the plan was successful. They got their answer 19 hours and 35 minutes later, the time it took for the results to reach Earth: The set of four thrusters worked perfectly...

It is expected that in the year 40,272, Voyager 1 will come within 1.7 light years of an obscure star in the constellation Ursa Minor (the Little Bear or Little Dipper)...."





Is that all?
I can hardly wait.





Speaking of 'Voyager' anyone remember this 'Star Trek' classic?




Hey, one never know, do one :-)

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