Voyager 1 Just Fired Up its Backup Thrusters for the 1st Time in 37 Years

Space.com ^ | Mike Wall

[Tijeras_Slim]

Amazing. Between Voyager and the Mars Rovers, we built some great stuff.

[Lurker]

Pretty amazing.

Send more Chuck Berry.

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[Dilbert San Diego]

Is this the spacecraft with a diagram of the solar system, showing which planet it came from, and also have drawings of a nude man and woman as inhabitants of this planet?

If aliens come across this thousands of years from now, what will they think?

[Jonty30]

They will wonder what we taste like and if we are fast food.

Apparently, we taste like a sweet meat and our obesity epidemic ensures we are not at all fast food.

[Joe 6-pack]

"If aliens come across this thousands of years from now, what will they think?"

That's the entire premise of the first Star Trek movie :)

[KarlInOhio]

That was on the Pioneer probes. Voyager had a lot more including various images of Earth and audio recordings - most importantly Chuck Berry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_Voyager_Golden_Record

[faithhopecharity]

the aliens will think we are extremely primitive to have only two boring sexes when advanced alien life forms like obama have 57

[KarlInOhio]

Apparently, we taste like a sweet meat and our obesity epidemic ensures we are not at all fast food.

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[sparklite2]

Ditto.

[dfwgator]

[BenLurkin]

If aliens come across this thousands of years from now, what will they think?

"Looks like meat is back on menu, boys!"

[OttawaFreeper]

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Beaming with pride! My Dad ran the program at GE that built the RTGs that power Voyager 1 & 2. I still remember watching the videos he had of them smashing the transportation casks loaded on rail cars into a solid concrete barrier to prove that they casks wouldn’t split open in the event the rocket crashed on lift off.

The spacecraft are still called Mariner Jupiter-Saturn in our family!

Thanks for posting.

[mountn man]

No discussion of Voyager is complete
without pictures

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[RegulatorCountry]

Those dual main thrusters are impressively engineered.

[Dalberg-Acton]

There were much better computer programmers when that thing was designed.

[mountn man]

LOL

Good one.

[Dalberg-Acton]

She bears a lot of responsibility for Obama becoming a Senator.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Voyager 1's radio signal in 2013, picked up and translated to image by Earth-bound radio telescopes: