Voyager I Is Now Interstellar!

**RickThai** · 13-09-2013, 10:13 PM

I saw yesterday where scientists have confirmed that the Voyager I, which was launched in 1977, has definitely left the solar system.

It is the first man made object to have ever entered this realm of the Galaxy!

An absolutely amazing feat of science and engineering that heralds an entirely new era of space exploration!

Three Cheers For Humanity!, Hup, Hup, Hooray!

RickThai

**Rural Surin** · 13-09-2013, 10:39 PM

It would be more wonderous if they began to release, to the public, any images that might be available.

.....that is if those things are operable presently.

**harrybarracuda** · 13-09-2013, 10:53 PM

Images by Voyager ? NASA Voyager

**RickThai** · 13-09-2013, 10:54 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

It would be more wonderous if they began to release, to the public, any images that might be available.

.....that is if those things are operable presently.

Most of Voyager I's photo were made public decades ago and have been eclipsed (so to speak) by the better definition and color photos from Voyager II.

It is my understanding that Voyager I is still operational, but is limited in what and how it can communicate with its controllers.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

RickThai

**Rainfall** · 13-09-2013, 11:00 PM

A couple of the older Pioneer probes are further away than Voyager, but contact has been lost long ago. Voyager is almost out of power as well. Like the Pioneers fueled by Plutonium. When an alien race ever finds the junk, they gonna think, WTF?

**jamescollister** · 13-09-2013, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by RickThai

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

It would be more wonderous if they began to release, to the public, any images that might be available.

.....that is if those things are operable presently.

Most of Voyager I's photo were made public decades ago and have been eclipsed (so to speak) by the better definition and color photos from Voyager II.

It is my understanding that Voyager I is still operational, but is limited in what and how it can communicate with its controllers.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

RickThai

It's a long way out and some of the instruments aren't working, but a remarkable that we as a people have left the solar system into interstellar space..
Jim

**Takeovers** · 13-09-2013, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by RickThai

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

It would be more wonderous if they began to release, to the public, any images that might be available.

.....that is if those things are operable presently.

Most of Voyager I's photo were made public decades ago and have been eclipsed (so to speak) by the better definition and color photos from Voyager II.

It is my understanding that Voyager I is still operational, but is limited in what and how it can communicate with its controllers.

Someone please correct me if I am wrong.

RickThai

The Voyagers are still operational after all those decades. But the cameras and most instruments have been turned off because of declining electricity supply. The cameras were equipped with vidicon tubes for their images. Digital cameras as used today were not even dreamt of at the time.

The Voyagers need to keep their antennas trained on earth to transmit and receive data. For that purpose they use their thruster engines and they still have fuel left to run them for a number of years to come depending on what maneuvers they perform.

The only instruments still running are recording cosmic radiation. Changes in that radiation has now led to the conclusion that they have left the influence sphere of our sun. Except the gravity that is still pulling them and slowing them down.

In that sense they have not left the solar system. Ahead of them out there is still the Oort-cloud of planetoids and comet cores which are forming an outer ring around the solar planets far out of even Pluto.

**Bettyboo** · 13-09-2013, 11:33 PM

Originally Posted by Rainfall

fueled by Plutonium. When an alien race ever finds the junk, they gonna think, WTF?

& then get alien cancer?

**Gerbil** · 14-09-2013, 12:31 AM

In a few billion years when the Sun goes Nova and the Earth is swallowed up. That gold disc it is carrying may be the only evidence to show the human race ever existed.

(Good job they didnt launch it now or the disc would probably contain BettyBoo's personal collection of speedo photos

)

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Voyager is almost out of power as well. Like the Pioneers fueled by Plutonium. When an alien race ever finds the junk, they gonna think, WTF?

Plutonium has a half life of 87 years. It will take tens of thousands of years to reach any star and it will all be gone by then.

**kingwilly** · 14-09-2013, 01:53 AM

40,000 or so years at current speed of 100,000km/hr

**wasabi** · 14-09-2013, 02:05 AM

1977 (launch year) what where You doing? I remember thinking 1980 was a long time ahead. The next century was millions of light years ahead,and here I am ,in it.

**The Big Fella** · 14-09-2013, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by wasabi

1977 (launch year) what where You doing? I remember thinking 1980 was a long time ahead. The next century was millions of light years ahead,and here I am ,in it.

I had just got my first set of road legal wheels. 49cc's of raw pussy pulling power at the twist of my young wrist. Very similar to the one pictured here only mine was red.

Moped Photo Gallery - 1971 Garelli Rekord 50, Brown Metallic

Its amazing to think that something built by man has travelled so far from earth and is still working. They certainly built things to last in them days compared to today.
it is sad though that we can send this machine out of the galaxy yet we can't manage to stop killing each other over next to nothing.

**Rainfall** · 14-09-2013, 11:50 AM

I got one of them a year later. Simson S50.

Still lots of them on the roads, build to last. They're popular for their special permit, a 50cc bike that goes faster than 50kph.

**The Big Fella** · 14-09-2013, 01:40 PM

The Garelli at the time was the fastest moped in the UK. It would leave the yamaha FSIE standing especially after a bit of work on the head and ports etc. The good old days when you still had to be able to actually pedal the fcuking thing for it to be classed as a moped hence the name

An era when bikes were becoming superbikes.
Being sixteen today I don't think just doesn't have the same feel as it did back then.

**Takeovers** · 15-09-2013, 01:16 PM

The NASA press conference about this news. Long but with some details. Interesting to see even only the first few minutes if the whole thing is too long.

A quote from that video.

Space the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Voyager,
it's 36 year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out anomalous cosmic rays and new plasmas, to boldly go where no probe has gone before

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