RunRichRun, 2 months ago Nothing lasts forever — lovely writing: "NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft" "... nearly a half-century [currently 46 years] later... [#Voyager1 & 2] have become the longest-lived and farthest-flung probes ever dispatched by humankind... Traveling at the speed of light, the radio signals used to command the spacecraft take 22.5 hours to travel 15 billion miles—and 22.5 hours to come back..." (NB: Only took a day for results in my first computer lab.) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-restores-communications-with-ailing-voyager-1-spacecraft/
Nothing lasts forever — lovely writing: "NASA Communicates with Ailing Voyager 1 Spacecraft"
"... nearly a half-century [currently 46 years] later... [#Voyager1 & 2] have become the longest-lived and farthest-flung probes ever dispatched by humankind...
Traveling at the speed of light, the radio signals used to command the spacecraft take 22.5 hours to travel 15 billion miles—and 22.5 hours to come back..." (NB: Only took a day for results in my first computer lab.) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-restores-communications-with-ailing-voyager-1-spacecraft/
