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Voyager 1 Beyond Solar Wind

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the merging-with-the-infinite dept.

healeyb noted that Voyager 1 has now reached a distance from the sun where it is no longer able to detect solar wind. Launched in 1977 to get up close and personal with our solar system's gas giants, scientists estimate that in another 4 years it will cross the heliosphere.

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  1. Re:An amazing achievement by troon · · Score: 4, Informative

    ITYM "Opportunity". Spirit's been silent, and I'm guessing dead, since March.

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  2. Re:NASA Craftsmanship by Kamokazi · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's a great idea. Going by typical NASA costs for things, the toys would only run 10-50k, and you could get yourself into a nice efficient compact for a cool $15M

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  3. Re:8 bits to the byte silly by john83 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, there are, but SMS uses a reduced character set and so seven bits per character. It's 140 bytes to represent 160 characters. That's my understanding at least, backed up by a cursory google. I could of course be wrong.

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