Comment on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 3 months agoInformation on the heliopause is about the only useful thing we can get from something out that far. It turns out to be a lot more complex than we thought.
It seems to me that this would be worth a mission?
frezik@midwest.social 3 months ago
It’d be hard to justify a mission on that alone. At least for now. Get space based industry going and then there’s lots of missions that open up.
New Horizons will get there eventually, and from a brief search, it sounds like it could still get back useful data once it’s out that far. NASA will need to keep the communications line funded, though.