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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence
https://scitechdaily.com/15-billion-miles-away-nasas-voyager-1-breaks-its-silence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992394
* fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter
* perspective: I wait 2.5-3 min for my LaTeX doc to compile
* back-and-forth communication with Voyager 1 takes 2d: 23 hours for the command to travel 15 billion miles (24 billion km) to Voyager 1, & another 23 hours for data to return to Earth
#space #spacecraft #Voyager1
https://scitechdaily.com/15-billion-miles-away-nasas-voyager-1-breaks-its-silence
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992394
* fault protection system prompted the spacecraft to turn off a transmitter
* perspective: I wait 2.5-3 min for my LaTeX doc to compile
* back-and-forth communication with Voyager 1 takes 2d: 23 hours for the command to travel 15 billion miles (24 billion km) to Voyager 1, & another 23 hours for data to return to Earth
#space #spacecraft #Voyager1