Voyager probes to leave solar system by 2016

[akosijason]

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grabi 1977 wa paman ko nataw ana...interesting kau dah.

[kreik101]

maka send back pa ba sila ana ug info or maka kuha lang ug signal back to Earth un ana kalayua?

[rodsky]

maka send back pa ba sila ana ug info or maka kuha lang ug signal back to Earth un ana kalayua?

Voyager 2 - Current_status

-RODION

[kajrot1]

naa bay name ng PROBES na g send bro

[rodsky]

naa bay name ng PROBES na g send bro

The topic is about "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2". Please do further reading on a topic before participating and/or posting such questions, thank you.

-RODION

[handsoff241]

Sir Rods I have a very old question, this one has been lurking in my mind permi lang malimutan everytime ko mo post diri.

Those spacecrafts (Voyager 1 and 2) are very old and they are very far from us...
1.Are the parts of the spacecrraft suffering from decay and degradation?
2.How are they able to transmit reliable information?
3.How are they fueled?
a.What is the fuel used?
bWhere is the fuel stored?
c. Is it still enough for the journey further and back home?
4. Did it contain electronic computers?

Salamat, more questions as I remember them slowly.

[rodsky]

Sir Rods I have a very old question, this one has been lurking in my mind permi lang malimutan everytime ko mo post diri.

Those spacecrafts (Voyager 1 and 2) are very old and they are very far from us...
1.Are the parts of the spacecrraft suffering from decay and degradation?
2.How are they able to transmit reliable information?
3.How are they fueled?
a.What is the fuel used?
bWhere is the fuel stored?
c. Is it still enough for the journey further and back home?
4. Did it contain electronic computers?

Salamat, more questions as I remember them slowly.

1. Yes, but only through micrometeorites. Empty space has nothing in it that would naturally corrode or degrade/destroy any object placed in it.

2. Radio waves travel unimpeded through space. The probes send and receive radio signals, its that simple.

3. a. and b. read on Radioisotope thermoelectric generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
c. the probes have no destination, and there is no "going back home."

4. taken from the Voyager FAQ website: There are three different computer types on the Voyager spacecraft and there are two of each kind. Total number of words among the six computers is about 32K. 1. Computer Command System (CCS) - 18-bit word, interrupt type processors (2) with 4096 words each of plated wire, non-volatile memory. 2. Flight Data System (FDS) - 16-bit word machine (2) with modular memories and 8198 words each. 3. Attitude and Articulation Control System (AACS) - 18-bit word machines (2) with 4096 words each.

-RODION

[igcometa]

huhuhuh...maintag walai meteorite or comet nga mu bangga... unmanned man diay, so dili sa kalikay kung naay mocollide niya

[nealotol]

nindot ni kay walay makalas nga kinabuhi, kung naa man gani anumalya.

[KlaytoN]

UPDATE: 35 years and 18 billion kilometers later, NASA's Voyager approaches exit from solar system - InterAksyon.com


Photo courtesy of NASA

WASHINGTON - NASA's Voyager 1, launched in 1977, appears to be on the verge of becoming the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and begin a new journey in outer space, experts say.

Scientists are intrigued by the recent increase in cosmic rays hitting the spacecraft, which for decades has snapped images of the Earth and other planets in the solar system as it makes its long journey into outer space.

"The latest data from Voyager 1 indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing quickly," said a statement from Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

"This is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system's final frontier."

These cosmic rays, which are high energy particles that are accelerated to near-light speed by distant supernovas and black holes, have been bombarding the spacecraft with greater frequency, NASA said.

The galactic cosmic rays encountered by Voyager 1 increased about 25 percent from January 2009 to January 2012.

"More recently, however, we have seen a very rapid escalation in that part of the energy spectrum. Beginning on May 7, 2012, the cosmic ray hits have increased five percent in a week and nine percent in a month," he said.

Those signals could mean that Voyager is "on the verge of a breakthrough 18 billion kilometers from Earth," NASA said.

Researchers had previously said they expected Voyager 1 would leave the solar system and enter interstellar space -- between the end of the Sun's influence and the next star system -- at some point in the next two years.

NASA has described Voyager 1 and its companion Voyager 2 -- now more than 9.1 billion miles (14.7 billion kilometers) away from the Sun -- as "the two most distant active representatives of humanity and its desire to explore."


Voyager Probes direct link:

Voyager - The Interstellar Mission