CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.bsky.social

For the first time since Nov. 2023, two of the four instruments aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft (currently ~24,472,559,000 km away or about 22.5 light hours from us) have started re-transmitting science data! These spacecraft are older than me and still going strong. Go you good thing! 🔭🧪📡🛰️

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Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦 🏝️ @quietlycurious.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 00:40 UTC

Dang! That is impressive!

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 22:07 UTC

You can find out Mission Status info on the Voyagers here: voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/stat...

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David A .B.Rooke @davidrke.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 10:23 UTC

Awesome 👌

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Anthony @aroseworn.bsky.social [ View ] May 22, 2024 at 22:48 UTC

“the team had to wait nearly two days to see if their commands were successful” - still faster than my work laptop installing updates

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The chicken lady @chickenlady.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 02:22 UTC

🥹🥰

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DMC @danm44.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

I was a teenager when they launched, and am no expert, but I am in disbelief that I continue to read articles about them still working outside the solar system. That in itself should provide science huge information.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 02:51 UTC

Commander Spock: V'Ger must evolve. Its knowledge has reached the limits of this universe and it must evolve. What it requires of its god, doctor, is the answer to its question, "Is there nothing more"?

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Sir Nick the Ardent @dplaflamme.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 00:01 UTC

Do you compute the age of an object away from Earth from its launch date or from some earlier date, such as when electricity was first provided to its components in a test setting?

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Cyrus @013enterprises.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 03:00 UTC

I shared a song about the Voyager probes earlier!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGnv...

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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social [ View ] May 23, 2024 at 00:05 UTC

Voyager: "sorry, just seeing this now."

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