Just Sharing This Voyager 1 138AU from home

[s-band]

Voyager 1 passes another milestone: is now 138AU from home

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/spacecraftlife.html

Even with cryo front ends and huge dishes, 1.4kbps is the limit now.

 

[Lazarus]

Still faster than BT ...... ;)

 

[Captain Jack]

And we can't even keep a modern phone on battery power for more than a day...

The Voyagers, to me, represent one of the biggest achievements in mankind - more than putting the man on the moon, as, to be honest, my old cars have done more miles than the distance from here to there.

 

[s-band]

Current distances from Earth for Voyagers:
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/

 

[Vipersan]

Carl would be so proud..

 

[hairybadger]

Carl would be so proud..

My first thought on reading this was "Why would your dish be proud?"

 

[Captain Jack]

Yeah we haven't heard much from Evan's dishes lately

 

[Vipersan]

Yeah we haven't heard much from Evan's dishes lately

Things go in cycles ..
Hopefully I'll be back in business later this year ..
weather , health and ageing parents permitting.
I wont deny I'm finding it tough atm ....but not given up hope of improvement just yet .
;)

 

[Terryl]

For those that need to know, one AU is equal to 93 million miles, so the craft is 12.843 billion miles from Earth, almost to the FTL line. A bit slow.

 

[Channel Hopper]

And we can't even keep a modern phone on battery power for more than a day...

Who wants nuclear piles ?

 

[Terryl]

Nuclear is old hat stuff, try dark matter, it runs very clean, as no one around these parts can even see it.

 

[PaulR]

Nah, dark matter is so passé. Now dark energy - that's another thing.

 

[Lazarus]

Nah, dark matter is so passé. Now dark energy - that's another thing.

Yep. Iron Bru.