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Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years (nasa.gov)
If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use. NASA announces: Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. The spacecraft, which has been flying for 40 years, relies on small devices called thrusters to orient itself so it can communicate with Earth. These thrusters fire in tiny pulses, or "puffs," lasting mere milliseconds, to subtly rotate the spacecraft so that its antenna points at our planet. Now, the Voyager team is able to use a set of four backup thrusters, dormant since 1980. "With these thrusters that are still functional after 37 years without use, we will be able to extend the life of the Voyager 1 spacecraft by two to three years," said Suzanne Dodd, project manager for Voyager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
That honestly boggles the mind to think of something built so long ago, sitting in the harsh environment of space still able to function that well - not to mention all of the other hardware working well enough to instruct the thrusters to fire. Well done.
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The space between the stars? Show me somewhere that isn't between two stars.
It seems NASA has an answer at https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/in...
The thing was designed to operate at near-zero (K) temperatures and deep vacuum. That's colder than liquid nitrogen, and zero oxidation or whatever.
You don't exactly store your car under these kinds of conditions.
Incidentally, when you do store your car under proper conditions, it fires up after 50 years. Youtube the video of a Russian WW2 tank being revived in 2013.
Oh shit, Russia collusion!
Do we really have to explain the difference between an internal combustion engine and a spacecraft thruster?
Do we really have to explain the difference between a planetary atmosphere and the near vacuum of space?
Do we really have to explain just how awful this analogy is?
'If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use'.
The fact that you kept/added this to the story says it all I think ;(
is infested with carbon units.
P.S> forced past
Just pull out the choke, pump the throttle, put a cartridge in the Coffman starter and fire it.
Have gnu, will travel.
FYI, you can see what each antenna in NASA's Deep Space Network is doing at any given moment by Looking at this site..
Below each antenna is the craft being communicated to. Clicking on the antenna and then "+ more detail" will get you some info about signal strengths, transmission rates, round trip light times, and more.
I don't see one right this moment but it is common to find one of the 70m antennas talking to one of the Voyagers. Right now Goldstone antenna 14 (70m) is talking with New Horizons.
Captcha = acquire
I don't see what the big deal is - Trump's also a puff-oriented space cadet in a harsh environment, and he's well over 70!
for creimer's penis? It hasn't been used in 47 years, do you think it can still thrust?
left the solar system. There is the very real possibility that some Russian Cosmonauts have ended up there.
LK
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Yeah well that's all well and good until it comes back looking to merge with the creator.
Some 6 years ago us kids decided he couldn't drive anymore, and he wouldn't give up his keys. I swapped a couple of his ignition wires, truck wouldn't start and dad (who used to be an A-1 mechanic) (now with the alzheimer's option) couldn't figure out why.
6 years later dad is still going strong, health wise, is totally gone, mentally wise, and I don't remember which wires I crossed and am not an A-1 mechanic. Plus 4 flat tires, and a truck that hasn't moved in 6 years/
31 years from now? My niece is a useless waste of oxygen who can barely maintain her US-gov mail to keep her welfare coming while she plays video games 24/7. The other niece and nephew are 2,000 miles away and have never been part of dad's life, doubt they could start dad's truck. If I'm alive in 31 years I expect to make a killing on the talk show circuit. Won't be actively trying to kill off oldest person alive, but will be sending thoughts and prayers that they let me be #1 for a week or two.
The script says it works, so it works.
If the script says they are going to 'have a problem' with a bunch of 13s on the way to a Moon landing site that would have been in the dark anyway, then it doesn't work.
That's Hollywood!
Space is fake. The Earth is flat. The eclipses prove it.
Solar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895
Lunar Eclipse: https://vimeo.com/92378881
No model of the lunar eclipse correctly captures it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2014/10/06/why-does-the-moon-turn-red-during-a-lunar-eclipse/
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/scottsdale?iso=20140415
Next lunar eclipse: January 30/31, 2018 North America
Fire the trans-phasic lateral thrusters.
"Well nobody fell for that water on mars thing for the 8th time this year so we gotta come up with something else."
Fifty fears from now, imagine space aliens come to earth with our satellite, and ask us to play for them what's on the records. We look around, but, embarrassed, can't find a turntable.
left the solar system.
That and a manhole cover.
Have gnu, will travel.
Cool, you can thank my late father, he was a lead control systems engineer on that project.
And on the Magellan, and Mariner projects.
Oh, and the A-12... but thats another story.
The point is that the new one could have been built to last long too, while being efficient.
But companies deliberatey don't. Because "Deutschland, Deutschland, ... err, I mean, "profit, profit über alles!".
Its particles are actually extremely hot. There just are very few of them!
That is not the same as the (very many very slow particles) that you mean.
left the solar system.
That and a manhole cover.
and a teapot.
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I like this thing is still working at nearly 40 years old and 20 light hours away, when my computer and phone update weekly, and I doubt my hardware would be supported in 30 years even if it still worked.
The millennial that doesn't like most of the stuff designed for millennials.