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Happy 30th Birthday, Pioneer 10

Posted by timothy on from the not-yet-over-the-hill dept.

tlon writes: "Pioneer 10, the spacecraft that brought us the first pictures of Jupiter, turned 30 today. Launched in 1972, the probe is now some 7.4 billion miles away, as it cruises out towards Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus. NASA will attempt to contact the spacecraft today, (it was successfully contacted last year), but the round trip time is over 22 hours. How's that for a ping latency? See Nasa's Pioneer 10 Page for more details."

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  1. Hah! by Quixote · · Score: 1, Redundant

    the round trip time is over 22 hours. How's that for a ping latency?

    My ISP does that sitting here on earth. Beat that, NASA!

  2. Poor servers by sith · · Score: 0, Redundant

    22 hour ping? Seems like thats about what nasa's webservers are at right now... poor servers... sniff.

  3. ping latency? by H0NGK0NGPH00EY · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the round trip time is over 22 hours. How's that for a ping latency?

    Hmm... page no load. Maybe they're running their webpage through that thing?

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  4. 22 hrs? by gatesh8r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Damn lag! I can't believe how lagged that Quake server is. I swear. I don't suck so bad; I just have a 22 hr ping time.

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