That'll be a fun mission to follow. I'm a huge rocket/space nerd. The Ingenuity helicopter is very exciting right now as well. I'm super excited that they extended its mission and to use it as a science and hazard scout for Perseverance.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-05-03, 02:38:

That'll be a fun mission to follow. I'm a huge rocket/space nerd. The Ingenuity helicopter is very exciting right now as well. I'm super excited that they extended its mission and to use it as a science and hazard scout for Perseverance.

Hi there! Thanks for your reply - I think I feel the same.
Still remember the Pathfinder days, when it was still in the news! ^^
As for the new Interstellar Probe, I just hope they decide wisely.
The Mariners, Pioneers and Voyagers proved to be longelived and venerable.
It would be a shame if they overdo and cramp to much modern technology into the new one.
There's some simple, yet elegant among the 1970s technology.
Let's just look at the design of the Voyagers and, say, New Horizons.
The later is true high tech, while the older siblings are well thought through.
The Voyagers have redundant systems, a purpose-serving design and durable computers.
Some components still function, despite working way out of spec due to the heaters being shut down because of power levels becoming critical.
Modern technology, like flash media, would surely fail under similar conditions.
Last, but not least, all predecessors of New Horizons have a timeless mechanical design.
Like the creations of DaVinci. 😉

I was 10 when Mars Pathfinder landed in 97 but I followed that mission very closely. I did many school assignments based on that mission.

May 11th, 2021: Voyager 1 hears an eerie humming sound.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/far … ace-2021-05-11/

I read about that on NASAspaceflight.com . It's so cool how even with their age and distance were still learning more and more with them

Jo22 wrote on 2021-05-12, 00:06:

May 11th, 2021: Voyager 1 hears an eerie humming sound.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/far … ace-2021-05-11/

After 44 years of travel, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space.

That they officially know of.

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-05-12, 02:07:

Jo22 wrote on 2021-05-12, 00:06:

May 11th, 2021: Voyager 1 hears an eerie humming sound.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/far … ace-2021-05-11/

After 44 years of travel, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space.

That they officially know of.

Uh?

appiah4 wrote on 2021-05-12, 07:49:

cyclone3d wrote on 2021-05-12, 02:07:

Jo22 wrote on 2021-05-12, 00:06:

May 11th, 2021: Voyager 1 hears an eerie humming sound.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/far … ace-2021-05-11/

After 44 years of travel, Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object in space.

That they officially know of.

Uh?

What... You don't like a little bit of conspiracy theory here and there?

Tiny update. September 10th, 2021: GNU Radio was successfully used to decode recorded Voyager data.
Source: https://hackaday.com/2021/09/10/gnu-radio-dec … s-voyager-data/

Tiny update. JPL/NASA provide a 3D simulation of the Voyager spacecraft.
Source: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecra … interactive.php

Tiny update. You can have a look at the status of the Deep Space Network (DSN) online.
Source: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html

Tiny update. Discovered a twitter account for the Voyagers.. Has status information, yay! ^^
Source: https://www.twitter.com/NSFVoyager2

Tiny update. There's a new video of a Voyager 1 presentation online.
It's about receiving and decoding the 8.4 GHz signal from Voyager with Open Source tools.

Source: http://southgatearc.org/news/2022/february/de … m-voyager-1.htm

https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/radio_voyager1/

Update. May 18, 2022. As you may have had read in the gutter press the past few days, Voyager 1 currently sends strange telemetry back to earth.

More information: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/engineers-inves … -telemetry-data

ALIENS

^😃

Quick update. Found an interesting article about ancient spacecrafts. Covers the Voyagers, too.
https://interestingengineering.com/oldest-undead-spacecraft

That was a great read. Has NASA had any more updates on the data anomalies of Voyager 1? From what I've been reading the probe is still sending back science data and it appears that the signal strength hasn't been effected.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-05-27, 23:21:

That was a great read. Has NASA had any more updates on the data anomalies of Voyager 1? From what I've been reading the probe is still sending back science data and it appears that the signal strength hasn't been effected.

I'm sorry. 😔 I'm not sure to be honest, from what I read so far, the people working with the Voyagers
seemed to be rather clueless still. And a bit annoyed, too. 🤷‍♂️
They kinda seem to be talking in defense currently, continue to repeatedly state how many times the twin probes outlived their mission already..

I guess that's needed to counter the sensational journalism.
Nowadays press uses any occasion to make the project seem as a failure.
They also oversimplify facts, cut information etc.

To name an example: The travel time of the radio signals.
The perspective is completely missing in press.
From our point-of-view, it may need around 22 hours (to Voyager 1), yes.
But if we *could* travel with the signals, it wouldn't take 22 hours.
That's basic relatively. Time dilation.
We're living in 2022, someone should expect that humanity has gained a basic understanding of this by now. *sigh*😔

That's in a strong contrast to the early years of the mission, I guess.
Back then, journalists were very respectful and encouraged.
They were brave enough to ask scientific or intellectual questions and even print them.
There's video footage at YT that shows it. 🙂

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-05-27, 23:21:

That was a great read. Has NASA had any more updates on the data anomalies of Voyager 1? From what I've been reading the probe is still sending back science data and it appears that the signal strength hasn't been effected.

I'm sorry. 😔 I'm not sure to be honest, from what I read so far, the people working with the Voyagers
seemed to be rather clueless still. And a bit annoyed, too. 🤷‍♂️
They kinda seem to be talking in defense currently, continue to repeatedly state how many times the twin probes outlived their mission already..

I guess that's needed to counter the sensational journalism.
Nowadays press uses any occasion to make the project seem as a failure.
They also oversimplify facts, cut information etc.

To name an example: The travel time of the radio signals.
The perspective is completely missing in press.
From our point-of-view, it may need around 22 hours (to Voyager 1), yes.
But if we *could* travel with the signals, it wouldn't take 22 hours.
That's basic relatively. Time dilation.
We're living in 2022, someone should expect that humanity has gained a basic understanding of this by now. *sigh*😔

That's in a strong contrast to the early years of the mission, I guess.
Back then, journalists were very respectful and encouraged.
They were brave enough to ask scientific or intellectual questions and even print them.
There's video footage at YT that shows it. 🙂

Sadly that's how the news media are today. They turn even the smallest of ant hills into mountains. They way over sensationalize any hint of bad news into some rediculous spectacle and it raises ratings and revenue. Bad news sells good news doesn't and sadly the days of respectful journalist is long dead.

https://www.techradar.com/news/mars-probe-run … ter-two-decades