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04-21-2017, 01:38 PM | #1 |
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Voyager Probes
I watched a documentary on the Voyager Probes from the early 1970s with the family last night. I mentioned to my daughter that in the first Star Trek movie, Voyager came back to earth ready to kick some butt. She reminded me of all of the things that Star Trek predicted that have actually come to fruition...
Think about that for a while
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04-21-2017, 01:56 PM | #2 |
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Re: Voyager Probes
I still don't have a machine that is voice activated and produces any type of food I want out of thin air...not buying it.
And I can't beam myself to work yet.
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04-21-2017, 05:05 PM | #4 |
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Re: Voyager Probes
Voyager 1 is in interstellar space now. After all of those years I'm sure everything is dead on it now electronically. I remember the featured editions of the flybys of Jupiter and Saturn in National Geographic (Dad had a subscription for a long time).
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04-22-2017, 06:36 AM | #5 |
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Re: Voyager Probes
The probe to watch right now is Cassini. It's orbit around Saturn is being altered so it will pass in between the rings and finally crash into the planet.
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04-22-2017, 08:00 AM | #7 |
YNWA
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Re: Voyager Probes
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04-22-2017, 08:44 AM | #8 |
I Need My Space
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Re: Voyager Probes
Voyager is still returning data. Right now, it's helping to determine where our solar system actually ends. Basically, confirming or in some cases contradicting theory.
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05-06-2017, 08:46 AM | #9 |
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Re: Voyager Probes
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05-06-2017, 09:41 AM | #11 |
Have My Own Room
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Re: Voyager Probes
I am always amazed that these are still working and they were able to pull off the actual flight and mechanical computation given that we all carry more computing power in our pockets on a daily basis now.
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05-07-2017, 05:51 AM | #12 |
Ditat Deus
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Re: Voyager Probes
Alexa will send the Dominoes guy to my house toot sweet. Even remembers my order.
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05-07-2017, 01:44 PM | #13 | |
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Re: Voyager Probes
Quote:
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft made 2 Earth flybys, 2 Venus flybys and 3 Mercury flybys before it was going slowly enough to make an orbital insertion around Mercury. Ulysses, the solar probe launched in 1990, used gravity assists to totally change its trajectory into a polar orbit above and below the Sun. And Cassini used flybys of Venus, Earth and Jupiter to reach Saturn with an efficient flight path.
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