Voyager 1 has exited the Solar System?

"Tell Commander Lewis: Disco sucks !"

(nota bene: I nixed my message, it said something like "I don't care as long as they are still alive, busting the often repeated limit of 2025")
 
Hydroman said:
I agree too with you guys but the gold plated record I think also includes 1970's Disco music, this is not good, hostile alien lifeforms invading earth wearing polyester leisure suits and white patent leather shoes, oh the humanity of it all!
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For a while when vinyl went out, I was less concerned. Where were the aliens going to get a turntable and amplifier to even play the record in the CD then streaming music era? But with the recent resurgence in vinyl records, be afraid, be very afraid...
 
Better than Henry Rollins screaming at ET

AW! AW! AW! AW! AWW!

Better for ET to see the FTL USS Enterprise and think we really have it.
 
Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System

Streamed live 5 hours ago
After more than four and a half decades exploring our solar system and beyond, Voyager 1 has had a challenging year. In November 2023, the spacecraft suddenly and unexpectedly stopped sending scientific and engineering data back to Earth, beginning a months-long process to diagnose and problem-solve with a spacecraft billions of miles away and built on systems designed in the 1970s.

Join us for a live talk to learn how the Voyager team at JPL – both current and retired – used an impressive combination of modern and past resources, detective work, trial and error, and decades of experience to solve the problem.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere and continue to provide valuable scientific data from interstellar space.

Speakers:
Kareem Badaruddin, Voyager mission manager, NASA JPL
Dr. Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, NASA JPL

Host:
Gregory Smith, communications and education directorate, NASA JPL

Co-host:
Calla Cofield, media relations specialist, NASA JPL

(Original Air Date: Nov. 21, 2024)
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpA8NBzzy00
 
Not again Flyaway? Voyager 1 is over forty years old so things are bound to go wrong sooner or later. And of course is still reliant on 1970s comunications technology to keep in touch with Earth.
 
FighterJock said:
And of course is still reliant on 1970s comunications technology to keep in touch with Earth.
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On one end, yes. On the Earth end, NASA kept upgrading the DSN so its performance is now much better than what they had in the 1970s. The DSN could stay in contact with a Voyager-type transmitter at 200 AU. Voyager 1 is at about 150 AU now.
 

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