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NASA's Voyager I hit by third solar 'tsunami' - CNET

Data from this newest tsunami wave generated by our sun confirm that Voyager is in interstellar space -- a region between the stars filled with a thin soup of charged particles, also known as plasma.

The mission has not left the solar system -- it has yet to reach a final halo of comets surrounding our sun -- but it broke through the wind-blown bubble, or heliosphere, encasing our sun. Voyager is the farthest human-made probe from Earth, and the first to enter the vast sea between stars.

I'm astonished that it is still transmitting data after all this time.

Infinity split again :D

We are V...ger, we seek the creator...

Pretty dammed impressive piece of engineering.

- Peter.

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Originally Posted by KarTek (Post 3355216)

We are V...ger, we seek the creator...

Everytime I hear about Voyager, I think of that.

Voyager is still sending back data. It went a bit goofy for a bit but engineers were able to fix it and according to them, the little space craft is operating perfectly. Hard to believe that this satellite was launched 45 yrs ago and a mind bending 14.5 billion miles away from earth traveling in interstellar space.

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NASA’s Voyager 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyager 2, are the furthest human-made objects from our planet, having made it beyond the edges of the Solar System and out into the interstellar medium. At such distances, anything can go wrong. Add to that the fact that these are old craft: The Voyagers launched in the 1970s. So when Voyager 1 started to send home weird, garbled nonsense instead of telemetry data in May of this year, NASA engineers might have been forgiven for calling it a day and pouring one out for perhaps the most successful space mission of all time.

https://www.inverse.com/science/voyager-1-nasa-communication

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Originally Posted by davidmash (Post 4247999)

It is a fantastic piece of engineering. Must have been phenomenal to be a part of the voyager team. I remember how awe struck I was when the issue of National Geographic arrived with the picture on the cover of a volcanoe errupting off of the edge of IO. Truly a wake up to the universe and an indication that everything up there wasn't as "dead" as our moons surface had proven to be.

- Peter.

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Originally Posted by jplinville (Post 3355528)

Everytime I hear about Voyager, I think of that.

almost 2 years since we heard from jplinville ...

Amazing. Here we are still arguing about gas vs electric.

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Originally Posted by Kuan (Post 4248211)

Amazing. Here we are still arguing about gas vs electric.

I'm still hanging on to flux capacitor https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/...he-Future-.jpg

Like An Old Timex,

....It's still going and going......

Wow, 45 years gone allready .

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Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS (Post 4248153)

almost 2 years since we heard from jplinville ...

Last i remember people were campaigning on his behalf for a roof repair.

He was t-boned in his R107 and messed up a bit.

I hope he's doing O.K. and gets back to full health .