Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 months agoInteresting insight, thank you.
Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 months agoInteresting insight, thank you.
vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Another important factor with the Voyager probes is that they got their solar escape velocity with the help of a very fortunate alignment of the outer planets that only happens once every 176 years. It was much cheaper to fling something out that far under those conditions, and we won’t see them again until 2153.