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saxitoxin wrote:I read the other day that Voyager I will run out of gas in 2025. That's just 23 years away.
Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth? It probably cost a lot of money to build. If we get it back, we can gas it up and send it the other direction to see what's over there. Otherwise it will have been a total waste.
Mets?
saxitoxin wrote:What if NASA just sent it back halfway, like to Jupiter - sent something to meet it there and gas it up, then turned it around and let it go back again? They'd lose a little time having to backtrack, so that's a possible drawback.
saxitoxin wrote:I heard they've stowed a rotissirie chicken aboard Voyager. Would like to get it back.
saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
maxfaraday wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.
maxfaraday wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.
dyrtydog wrote:This story has already been written. Vgr will send out signals while broken on an alien planet, and Kirk and crew will investigate this "god" only to discover it was Voyager 1
Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Metsfanmax wrote:maxfaraday wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:Funkyterrance wrote:Metsfanmax wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Should NASA turn it around and put the pedal to the metal to get it back to the Earth?
No. The idea has always been to keep going and explore more about the boundary between our solar system and the rest of our galaxy. It will keep doing so even after it runs out of "gas."
Yeah but can it communicate without "juice"?
Sort of. It will keep going for a few years before 2025 with enough power left to send signals, but not to run its main scientific instruments.
They did not give it solar panels? It could communicate forever.
Solar panel technology barely existed in 1977.
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