How far can Voyager 1 go before we lose contact?

The Voyager space probes are the furthest man made objects from Earth. With Voyager 1 being 21 Billion Kilometres from Earth, communication with the Space probe relies on the Deep Space Network. But how far can Voyager 1 go before we lose communication? This video looks at how we communicate with Voyager and when it will eventually stop receiving our signals.
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Narrated by: Beau Stucki

[@hayosiko9119]

When the most distant man made object responds faster than your friends when you send them a message

[@gangsterspongebob5492]

Damn

[@gonzalo4658]

Nobody responds anymore in real life nor internet communications, prolly not even you

[@Krokoklemmee]

Then you might need some new friends

[@King-mz8xe]

These friends fake tho :/

[@adgalanda]

Sup bro, sorry I just got your message.

[@smilesthenarrator]

Voyager 1: So when do I get to comeback home :) NASA: Yea... about that....

[@TheRainbowKiss]

sMiles the Narrator shit man I felt that

[@lightning2756]

Damn

[@user-ko4nf9ef9k]

☹

[@johns8065]

bro thats so sad

[@johns8065]

@@TheRainbowKiss yeh that smile and everything :((

[@Smartstudycircle]

3:50 "Never to be heard from ever again" made me sad 😥😥😥

[@dronesphoteandwayponet1034]

Same

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Unless you're playing "Elite: Dangerous." If you go to the Sol system, you can actually visit the Voyager probes. :)

[@Selmarya]

We need to send another Voyager 3 that can be much more advanced

[@petermortimer6303]

@@Selmarya That's exactly what I thought. Is it only the cost that prevents it? But I suppose that even if they did send another probe would spend up to 40 years gathering data from the solar system, which Voyagers 1 and 2 have already collected.

[@wahabfiles6260]

I bet you keep your old electronics and ensure they are working indefinitely!

[@Dollarstore_Yuji]

"im losing signal, and it's getting hot" -voyager

[@hueyrosayaga]

You sayin' it'll hit a STAR?

[@falco5429]

@@hueyrosayaga Theres a chance it would hit a star

[@broda_d5751]

@@hueyrosayaga no it was a tragic incident where astronauts lost their lives! There last words were the same "it's getting hot" Inside the space shuttle!

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Take your protein pills and put your helmet on

[@WARN-2_1]

@@hueyrosayaga it'll pass by alpha centauri, a red dwarf star 1/3 of a light yest in lenght away from the sun, but the chances of voyaget fall into it is almost impossible

[@cancelledt6156]

*Plot twist:* Voyager 1 will come back to earth with a note saying: *"your technology sucks"*

[@abbybayer9815]

i can picture it now The year is 2100. Everyone has forgotten about the Voyagers, except a few of the older NASA members. One day, Voyager 1 returns, with a note reading: *I lived, bitch* Edit: I posted this almost a year ago and holy shit it blew up, glad y'all found my humor funny

[@blackcard6838]

But wait, so English Language is literally a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, whoever put those notes, "Your Technology Sucks" and "I Lived, Bitch" might have been studying Foreign Language. I salute those alien speaking english HAHAHAHAHA

[@jeebuz6627]

Black Card r/woooosh

[@unpackedwatermelon7902]

@@abbybayer9815 that cracked me up

[@saltysponge9965]

@@jeebuz6627 shut the fuck up chav

[@th0by]

If you ever feel alone...think about the Voyager

[@milanscienceacc3041]

😂👍🏻

[@bunnygaming3713]

@ςօղԵíղҽղԵɑӀ ժɾíƒɬ you can't hear in space

[@kellogscornflakes2430]

Doesn't it have a playlist of 80s rock, surely it won't get bored

[@Quick50]

Voyager 2: are you a joke to me?

[@Spartacus1314]

In reality it's listening to a song like Star Man or Mr. Blue Sky, then it'll make you happy when thinking about it.

[@blckwtr2880]

in 50 years we will get it back with a sticky note on it that says "no littering"

[@letsmakegadgets6899]

Bruh I love this comment

[@Shawa_Skibidi]

Underrated

[@ronibajralia7008]

Lol

[@seb_le1652]

Underrated

[@larniieplayz6285]

Ha!

[@Giugiu7077]

It’s honestly insane that in only 20 hours you can communicate THAT far

[@amudatosin9071]

It's all a lie, nasa is lying to you, earth is flat, escape the matrix.

[@nsnopper]

Well, 40 hours, there and back.

[@travisworth9290]

“My batteries are low. It is getting dark.”😭

[@abbybayer9815]

omg no not opportunity not now plz

[@currahee1782]

Bruh no!

[@derpychicken2131]

opportunity was long dead before it "died" in the media. It was dead for months, its just that they sent the last signal to see if it could still communicate, and that is how it became famous

[@emilisusas1254]

No, no more dying

[@ColinTalboo]

Derpychicken I bet you’re fun at parties

[@lawgx9819]

How to feel sad for an object :(

[@thesauciestboss4039]

66760 • 67 million years ago Oh, well, if they do it illegally, I agree. They’re terrible people. Please specify that, as it’s unrelated to the video.

[@thesauciestboss4039]

66760 • 67 million years ago I’m sorry, I thought you were one of those insane anti-humanitarian people

[@indridcold8433]

My vehicle just turned 400,000 miles and in April, she turned 23 years of age. She was my first new vehicle. Now she is starting to faulter a bit. But I will be bring her back to full strength soon. She never failed me. But her recent weakness makes me very sad.

[@theworldoverheavan560]

@@indridcold8433 sell it

[@indridcold8433]

@@theworldoverheavan560 I can not stand the look, handling, feel, and over engineering of today's vehicles. I am going to replace the manual transmission and rebuild the engine. It is cheaper than buying the ugly, cramped, over engineered, garbage of today.

[@ShoeNerd]

"It's enough to make a grown man cry"

[@pop778]

And that's okay.

[@ShoeNerd]

@@pop778:')

[@lazardanial9762]

@@pop778 isn't it from a movie?

[@pop778]

@@lazardanial9762 yeah, it's from Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2

[@serily4524]

how about u sf

[@weebgaming2268]

Last messege from Voyager 1-"It's been a long day without you my friend......and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"

[@78anurag]

When a story of a piece of metal is sadder than your own life.

[@larniieplayz6285]

@@78anurag F

[@joshuaclark518]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@santanusaha9466]

If you ever feel lonely just think about voyager 1 💔

[@noone-pl2gj]

The difference is that Voyager makes a difference in the world

[@solomongrundy1467]

@@noone-pl2gj Lonely people can't make a difference?

[@jayjohnx]

damn it feels

[@noone-pl2gj]

@@restitutororbis1018 its a joke

[@noone-pl2gj]

@@solomongrundy1467 its a joke

[@joesmith8270]

Poor voyager. Maybe Amazon will figure out a way to deliver a new battery with next day shipping.

[@askaleem215]

😃

[@redi6460]

They will have to deliver nuclear reactor and not a used one.

[@Iroction]

Joe Smith dat cool

[@thelimesheep4324]

it will be by a FTL drone that drops the package off in a really inconvenient place like my mailman

[@Bv2097]

Lol

[@ballybunion9]

Final message from Voyager 1: "It's full of stars, Dave."

[@walter4708]

“its beautiful, but I'm scared”

[@PantherAusfD1944]

Daisy, daisy.

[@Masterlewger]

Dud this comment brought me tears

[@SuperChicken666]

Very interesting and informative. I appreciate the fact that we didn't have to watch a 25 minute history of the Voyager Program before they got to the point. Thanks!

[@primalspace]

Thanks so much! I'm really glad to hear that you enjoyed the video and the way it was presented. Means a lot!

[@mervynnel9267]

A brilliant documentary. I completely agree with your comments.

[@aminulawal973]

...disappears silently into space, never to be heard from ever again... My heart is officially broken.

[@luttrwe7688]

That actually made me tear up a bit when the reality hit me.

[@FitBigSexy123]

It's actually really sad😢

[@jamesschultz1433]

The Mars rover Opportunity's final message, as a sandstorm was blocking the solar panels, was "My battery is low and it's getting dark."

[@VijaySingh-nx3db]

Aahhh This is sad to u guys and killing animals to fill up your so called tummy is ok #savelives #vegan

[@4bitvision161]

@@VijaySingh-nx3db shut up m9 its a life cycle, yeah plants are good and that but your missing out on the GOOD actually TASTY and high in PROTEIN foods.

[@gravydavy4188]

In the time it takes to watch this video Voyager has travelled 4630 miles.

[@zakapholiac9377]

Gravy Davy bruh

[@yourunclebob4964]

How did you do the math

[@gravydavy4188]

@@yourunclebob4964 I did the maths quite easily. Divide the hours by 60 to get minutes, divide by 60 to get seconds.

[@yourunclebob4964]

Gravy Davy I salute you for your service 🤝

[@junioraviator4325]

So in about 4.5 minutes, this *Masterpiece, Voyager 1 travels 4630 miles/ 7450 Kilometers* Simply Amazing!

[@deoxi3207]

Honestly made me sad and almost tear up that even tho it's not a living being. I fell like Voyager feels lonely and that not hearing from it anymore is like losing a friend after many years of knowing one another ;-;.

[@vryusvin3905]

Voyager 1 is, after all, the result of the dreams, hopes, ambitions and hard work of hundreds of people for years on this planet (Not to mention everyone from our collective history who figured out physics, chemistry and more to get them there). In some way, it is a part of us that we'll tragically lose forever in just a few years. Tears are justified.

[@narendrarai7612]

@@vryusvin3905 no it will not lose it.It is our hope (Earth)and hope for alien that there is also life on another planet. It will be always hope for Earth that one day alien will detect us

[@dougmacmcclelland1323]

I had worked at Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC, with the EE's from the DSN form 1971 - 1985. What is truly beyond amazing is that in the 45 years of travel we have only been able to communicate with VG1 because we have been continual improving our receivers to pick up a weaker and weaker signal. In other words 45 years ago, it would have been impossible to communicate with the VG1 at a distance of 11 billion miles.

[@cristeaadrian7419]

There is no communication in space. On earth is possible because of air which vibrates. In space also no electrics or electronics work, because of radiation very low temperature, high energy particles.

[@TomKappeln]

@@cristeaadrian7419 Take your pills flatearther !

[@dougmcclelland6139]

@@cristeaadrian7419 Well not quite true my young Padawan. RF communications is NOT vibrating air molecules. RF communications is carried out thru space by passing of electrically charged dust particles. How do you think we have received all those pictures from the Voyager spacecraft and please do not give me all those ' NASA Lied ' conspiracy theories. That would be an insult to my 40 year EE career and make you look like a fool.

[@adnanshabbar9310]

interesting thanks

[@Tirelesswarrior]

​@cristeaadrian7419 So how do you think NASA communicates with the remote vehicles in Mars? How does Russia communicate with its remote vehicles on other planets? How did USA communicate with astronauts on the moon during the apollo missions? NASA has large antennas through which radio waves signals are sent. That's exactly how they communicate with space.

[@MyDogFulton]

It’s last picture will be a UFO just to leave us all on a cliff hanger.

[@brettwarren5976]

*its

[@willaguillard]

MyDogFulton I wish. Too bad it turned off it’s camera to save fuel

[@rainbowrocket3981]

u'FO🌈OF'u exAMEN 🌈 Firm'Amen'T, The sun needs oxygen to breathe, my brothers anD sisters are going to figure it out. Dr.🌏ip 👀☔ waterFALLS. seaLEvEL

[@thecomedypilot5894]

@@rainbowrocket3981 Did you take the wrong medication?

[@rainbowrocket3981]

They flunked me in the second grade because I wouldn't think like them, Then tranquilized my energy on Ritalin. eYe don'T take their potions anymore. My doctor's name was dr. Webb. he SAid eYe was ADD, im from ADDiSON ill'i'no'is, 🕹👀🔨 Go Fish ¿ 🐟

[@CabezaDePistacho]

"never to be heard from, ever again" that really hit my heart 🥺

[@hasanbaraki3247]

I feel you

[@rxblox_aesthetic101x7]

It's funny cause they spent 250 million dollars on Voyager 1 and tbh, the use is stupid

[@ryan_lmao]

RobloxSquad4 Life how is the use stupid roblox squad for life? to show us what’s around space in real time? to collect data for shit around space? grow up

[@tatrotzz3643]

@@rxblox_aesthetic101x7 it was so worth it...not stupid at all.

[@Ywiyc]

RobloxSquad4 Life you have a fucking roblox channel

[@robertmyles9124]

Voyager 1's last message: *"Clear my browser history"*

[@MuzammilKhan-uw7jh]

hahahahaha

[@cosmosage13]

😂😂😂😂

[@Kid98.]

So original dude🤣

[@mervynnel9267]

A brilliant documentary. What caught my attention was - "It doesn't really matter how strong the signal is, as long as you have a receiver that is sensitive enough to pick it up."

[@seabarstwo1589]

We always ask Where is Voyager But never How is Voyager

[@kevinkarbonik2928]

why is voyager?

[@A____G]

@@kevinkarbonik2928 I'll do *YOU* one better.

[@YWeeJun]

What is voyager

[@A____G]

@Tom Arnold I think metaphors go over your head.

[@seabarstwo1589]

@Tom Arnold I feel stupid for reading your comment.

[@PaintToSample]

Imagine in 10 years, voyager is sent back by a mysterious source with an Uno Reverse card taped to it.

[@emanueldyakun6609]

LMAO

[@shittyflutecovers8032]

hahaha

[@habiehabra1443]

Aliens be like oh no you dont

[@thatoneguy9510]

I’m. Dying. OMG.

[@averagejoe6031]

I hope I live to see that

[@BatMan-xr8gg]

Amazing that they are still going. As some one said, imagine if 7.5 billion humans could work together, imagine the miracles we could achieved.

[@SocialMediaJunk]

Most humans are still busy with whose invisible sky daddy is real and big :)

[@blyat6076]

@@SocialMediaJunk Most humans can't speak properly

[@fernandoc.dacruz1162]

Seguem só por inercia e isso deve continuar indefinidamente, a não ser que topem com algo no caminho o que é altamente improvável, elas não tem fonte de propulsão própria.

[@anjuligupta1935]

@@SocialMediaJunk lol 😂

[@anjuligupta1935]

@@fernandoc.dacruz1162 interstellar space is not perfect vacuum so technically inertia can't keep it going forever But yes it can keep it it going for a very long period of time

[@Joseph05227]

The two probes left, I believe 16 days apart, with voyager 2 leaving first then voyager 1. The names were given as they believed voyager 1 would reach Jupiter and short after reach Saturn first. Keep in mind the were only built to last 5 years. After doing their missions they kept on going and eventually their missions were changed to explore the unknown. Voyager 1 entered the interstellar space and a bit later voyager 2 did as well. Hopefully they send in their last pictures before they die and disappear for good into the far beyond where no man has gone before.

[@stargazer7644]

Voyager took its last pictures 33 years ago. The camera systems were then turned off. There is no longer enough power to use them. None of the remaining experiments produce images.

[@dosomestuff1949]

@@stargazer7644so they can’t turn the cam back on

[@clutchyfinger]

Imagine the guy watching the signals. *beep* "Yep, still spacey."

[@CODA96]

Sounds like the perfect job for youtube commenters.

[@fraist1]

was a good comment until "yep still "spacey" " like wtf is spacey bruhhhhhhh

[@justinbrah627]

@@fraist1 Kevin Spacey

[@BenjamintYT]

Underrated 🤣

[@rav_inder5501]

One last picture will be just magnificent.

[@indridcold8433]

It was already taken. It is called, "The Family Portrait."

[@techgamer1597]

Don't think it even has enough power to take one photo and send it tbh. I could be wrong about that but it's risky as if they sent one it could mean no more science experiments for the next 8 years.

[@rav_inder5501]

@@indridcold8433 really?

[@indridcold8433]

@@rav_inder5501 It was taken 14 February 1990 before Voyager 1 left the Solar system and turning off the onboard camera. The portrait is a mosaic of many photographs. One of the photographs is called, "The Pale Blue Dot." That photograph is the 0.12 pixel size image of Earth. No photographs have been taken by Voyager 1 after that. Since entering into interstellar space, Voyager 1's camera was turned off because it would not be near anything close enough to photograph. The energy was saved for data sensors. That is the second furthest photograph of Earth. In 2013 a Pluto system probe also took a photograph of Earth and was further than when Voyager 1 took, "The Family Portrait."

[@rav_inder5501]

@@indridcold8433 thanks for information. You are a genius.

[@voidFutureVector]

We need more projects like voyager, we should be launching at least one a year. Bigger power and better technology. There is still so much to learn about our universe.

[@primalspace]

Agreed! So many advancements in technology since the initial launches. Would love to see what else we can find!

[@lilrr1431]

Not really..they will only tell us what we already know so why spend so much money and resources to launch them

[@Koipiok]

@@lilrr1431we have way better hardware now, we can do more sensitive detector for example or, with a more advanced battery we could put a camera that is on 24/7 , I’m sure there is so many things we can do with the miniaturization of basically everything since voyager’s launch

[@tezzla6358]

they can't make more projects like voyager because the way the planets aligned back then

[@tCoL_corp]

Voyagers last message "Thank you for the wonderful journey...I will remember all of y-" *CONNECTION LOST*

[@Xo-Yanga]

😭😭

[@aadarshktofficial]

😟😭 I don't know why I am feeling crying about this. Voyager looks like a soldier died for humanity. 😭😟

[@timppasaunoo3582]

And i lose my signal in the bathroom Edit: HOLY SHIT 1 K LIKES :OOOOOOO

[@yytyytg]

and I thought you have millions.

[@mysstal7216]

Timo Te yea cause you got shitty WiFi while they got millions worth of wild shit

[@yytyytg]

@@lance3748 That's what she said.

[@LaniakeaDenizen]

Haha. Then again, you don't have an array of multi-billion dollar recievers in your bathroom.

[@timppasaunoo3582]

Lol its so funny while these guys are roasting me with one joke😂😂 More anybody?

[@DaCashRap]

The aliens are gonna bring it back one day. "Is this yours?"

[@TheNoiseySpectator]

Hmmm..... So, that is a good way to get Extraterrestrials to visit _us_ , instead of going to them! ; >

[@s0ulshot]

We found this piece of shit, and thought it was yours. Just stop sending crap to space. It is crowded already.

[@Paul-ou1rx]

And say "You kids stay out of my yard!"

[@bsc4344]

Hartmann "And keep him off our space lawn, you young punks!"

[@mrnonsense1031]

Also aliens: It crashed in my yard! 😠

[@a.b.6972]

Incredible! I was born in 1977, when it was launched. As long as I lived this craft goes on and on in deep space

[@shadxwslash44]

3:30 Everytime I'm sad about something, I come back to this video. It always makes me realize how insignificant my problems are in the universe, and I shouldn't get problematic over such minor issues.

[@07jeons]

fr…learning about space makes me feel how insignificant we really are😭

[@SusForces]

Cringe

[@donaldgeorgelogan]

2068 Voyager 1: *sends message with image of red grass* Humans: hold up

[@52.yusrilihsanadinatanegar79]

Aliens?

[@donaldgeorgelogan]

Yes, and the red grass is a reference to the Kepler-186f poster

[@user-kz3rc1hx7e]

Of red cannabis!

[@tysopiccaso8711]

@@user-kz3rc1hx7e alien weed

[@scooraft9971]

Lol

[@hadeaep]

“Can communicate from billions of miles away” Me “can’t even get wifi in my kitchen”

[@FendiYT]

😂😂😂 they screwing us

[@FendiYT]

😂😂😂 they screwing us

[@FendiYT]

😂😂😂 they screwing us

[@FendiYT]

😂😂😂 they screwing us

[@GTI8855]

All you need is a 20 KW transmitter.

[@charliedallachie3539]

It’ll be interesting if someday we developed enough to travel out there and catch it. Would require sublight speeds like 10-20% speed of light. So like a week of travel to catch up to it.

[@emarsshelpline9848]

You are right, it will happen one day .

[@stankythecat6735]

I have been to the deep space array out side Canberra… it’s super amazing ! The antenna arrays are HUGE … like massive, when the array is transmitting you can stand behind it and look exactly where the probe is in the sky, even though the probe is clearly not visible there is a moment where you feel like you are connected to the brave little probe. It’s funny , but I felt lonely for the little probe

[@hellbird1381]

Just a thought..If something happens to that blue dot right now..this small dude might be the last thing roaming somewhere out there a proof we ever existed

[@robertgable2544]

There's new horizons, all the Rovers on mars, all the other planetary orbiters/landers, and depending on what happens to earth, satelites orbiting earth and maybe the ISS

[@hellbird1381]

@@balrajtoodripped5537 without maintainence other stuff will not stand against time non will even cross solar system :) After thousand million years our buddy floating passing intergalactic space with map and some voices ..while everythings else will get vanish in time :) But yea we can count in voyger2

[@ericssonhughes319]

Elon Musks Tesla will still be out there too.

[@jackkollhoff9519]

Ericsson Hughes Lmfao

[@itsjustnopinionok]

And all the other space junk out their. And the equipment sitting on moons, planes ect

[@moritzh2518]

Imagine humans be an Interstellar species in millions of years and then they will find Voyager 1 dlying in space and then recognizing this was the beginning of our interstellar history.

[@alexwang982]

Space is BEEG.

[@VeteranDroideka]

I Think Voyager will be Never found again, it will go so Deep in Space it cant be found. It has an constant Traveling Speed,even if all systems fall out.

[@SaithMasu12]

@@VeteranDroideka Voyager will still fly when humanity is gone from earth. It will fly millions of years from now. Voyager will outlast us.

[@nurs3826]

@Don Comer ok boomer

[@Spyder8561]

@@SaithMasu12 How do you know it won't crash into a star?

[@Kyuuwai]

Just imagine if they made an animated film titled *_" Voyager 1 "_* My heart can't handle such a hearbreak

[@primalspace]

I'd still watch though haha

[@eurasia2941]

Thank you for this interesting document. 44 years in the extreme environment of space and always in perfect operating condition while our iPhones are unusable after less than two years!

[@fernandoc.dacruz1162]

Não tem muito a ver uma coisa com a outra, o ambiente extremo do espaço é extremo para seres humanos, não para maquinas.

[@StayPuft80]

When Earth is swollen by the sun this little thing will still be exploring

[@subarnadeepkarmakar5146]

There's no guarantee though that it would survive billions of years later. What if this little thing gets engulfed by a black hole ;(

[@markjoshuaantonio33]

He has no power soon

[@gtd1783]

Mark Joshua Antonio no, Voyager 1 will lost contact with us.

[@bryannovelo5343]

At least he has some friends i guess. There's still Voyager 2, Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, and soon New Horizons will be interstellar.

[@gonzalo4658]

S t â R b Ô î 6 î X 9 î N ê LOL IKR WTF

[@jodyleder5406]

was almost crying w/ the music & the inevitable death of Voyager tbh great video!

[@Per409]

death? Voyager 1 an 2 will be one of very few things that will remain of earth/solar system for billions if not trillions of years.

[@ajappinen1007]

Me too

[@zephyerus4189]

same

[@nigelfranciscarty8887]

Yes, I have so say, I found this brilliant video quite emotional towards the end.. Go Voyager!!

[@kampfmuffins5507]

I'm not crying.. I just sweat out of my eyes..

[@bill-2018]

I just listened to the Max Valier satellite going over, okay, a recent one launched in 2017 but Oscar 7 was launched in 1974, lost communication and then re-started again and still working. Electronics have improved so much over the years so it's good to see Voyager keep on working even with the components available when it was built, they were of course the highest quality at the time.

[@thederpywarrior9501]

I like to think that one day in the very distant future, people will calculate where voyager1 went and attempt to recover it and put it in a museum or something. I know it's so incredibly unlikely to happen but as long as It's out there, it's still entirely possible.

[@dunebasher1971]

What would be the point? Its entire mission now is to carry the Golden Record out into the universe where maybe, one day, it'll be found by another civilisation.

[@thederpywarrior9501]

@@dunebasher1971 sentimental value, see the first step of contact ever attempted, cuz by then there's probably be a billion voyagers

[@Litkeen]

@@dunebasher1971 By the time humans retrieve it, it won't be humans anymore. They would look at us as being their "ancestors" as we look at dumb fish in the ocean with no legs who used to be our ancestor.

[@leelee0505]

"My battery is running out and im getting tired." Shit im in tears thinking about it 😭

[@lowdistortion]

Shut up

[@piratepropergander5295]

Low Distortion 😂

[@wanderleyalcasser5186]

@Star Trek Theory I even crying at final of video

[@mateip2002]

we'll find it one day

[@averageperson8274]

@@lowdistortion go find help and stop being toxic out of nowhere.

[@user-bo7dt4ug1j]

Voyager 1 was supposed to die at max 4-5 years after its launch! It is still alive, functioning, and giving us results after 35 years. It might die in 8 years or so, but everything has a lifetime, and voyager 1 can quietly say “mission completed”, it served us well.

[@patperkins8337]

If they can produce a battery that lasts that long, why can’t they make batteries that last longer than a couple of months?

[@lion2535]

Pat Perkins they’re most likely nuclear, you don’t want to be near that

[@Twuben]

@@patperkins8337 Lel, gotta pay for those nuclear AA batteries. *Cancer intesifies*

[@thesportsguy3088]

@@patperkins8337 they can but its expensive

[@thegamer5367]

@@patperkins8337 it uses a plutonium battery

[@francescodelre1274]

I swear i will cry hard when they will announce the last signal from Voyager1

[@aadarshktofficial]

Yes it represents whole of humanity going so far. Even if we accept or not we will sad about it.

[@rodolfoflores5432]

Venera and Voyager are, in my opinion, the most incredible probes for space exploration ever created.

[@hiimapop7755]

Voyager 1, what a fking legend.

[@viktorelmquist3274]

@@rmduwk shut up

[@rmduwk]

@@viktorelmquist3274 no u

[@viktorelmquist3274]

@matthew bai haha you deleted your comment hahahahhaha you bitch

[@sumuqh]

This made me sad

[@whitelampmrz]

@@viktorelmquist3274 mental

[@ianstradian]

A very sensitive machine that has been running for 41 years without any real maintenance.... Amazing!

[@desertratnt-7849]

Ian Stradian blows me away too. Can’t seem to get anything these days that last more than 5 years.

[@justinc2633]

Ian Stradian when there’s no money to be made from repairs/replacement parts engineers all of the sudden can build a ‘flawless’ machine, then again the people who worked on this were the best in the world

[@desertratnt-7849]

Cashy 1 funny how that works.

[@1barnet1]

Fan fact early light bulbs lasted centuries. There is one still burning since 1901. then Phillips and Osram made an Cartel decided 1000 hours was enough. The concept Planned absollescence was born. What a waste.

[@briananthony4044]

@@1barnet1 I remember reading about that. It is located in a Firehouse and has never been turned off. Electricity runs through it heating it to glowing, I bet it is a very yellow light with a thick filament. Modern lights have tungsten filaments that are very fine, and run so hot they glow white. Atoms are thrown off the wire when it is on and coats the inside of the bulb, dimming it. It also weakens the filaments as they become thinner. Everytime it is turned on the filament heats up and stretches, then shrinks when cooling when off. Eventually it must fail. That's the price of cheap brilliant white light.

[@herperodger]

I wasn’t expecting to feel emotional for a satellite today

[@MikinessAnalog]

I was 13 years old when these were launched. Like Spirit & Opportunity, their last signals will be forever ingrained into my mind.

[@stephon_wilson1262]

Am I really about to cry over a space probes death

[@kerchoo2465]

Ikr

[@deva7979]

He hasn't died, he just became self-independent, saying to humans, his creators, I am ready. This is our goodbye, but know I will keep travelling and exploring, living my own life. In my metal-made GIA-7 cooled heart, I will always feel the connection between you and me. Even though we will never share viewpoints again. I'm sorry I couldn't send another postcard.

[@nusaibatafannum]

Stephondabomb me too😭😭

[@demon_xd_]

Y e s

[@panpsalt6757]

Yes

[@homebody0089]

I didn't want to be sad for a SATTELITE so early in the morning but here I am.

[@brenankean147]

Not really a satellite because it's not orbiting anything. It's a probe

[@brookvalebrothers4982]

@@brenankean147 Its a satellite of Sagittarius A :)

[@infernus2438]

Yeah they made me wanna cry over a fucking spacecraft.

[@deraffeaufyoutube]

Yeah, I just watched the last episode of Assassination Classroom. Now I'm sad that Korosensei was killed AND about the Voyager probe.

[@DomDoesCoasters]

Its not a satellite...

[@michelleyy1]

That makes me really sad. It’s like we’ve been in a long distance relationship with voyager 1, and there will come a day when the distance becomes too much and the last message will be left on read.

[@anumeetsingh6218]

I have a strong feeling that Voyager will be studied by some other life form other than humans.

[@jordyv.703]

Doubt it. The chances of there being life out there is low, even lower for it be intelligent, even lower for it to actually want to observe the universe, or to be smart enough to do so. It would need to required instruments and even if they had all that, they'd still need to find Voyager. Finding a giant asteroid is hard enough already with our current tech, a tiny spacecraft like that is almost undetectable.

[@robertlouisburns]

I bet an advanced race will upgrade Voyager so as to send it back so it can do what it's programming is, to report back to the creator.

[@ndumisomeyiwa6356]

@@jordyv.703 they prolly sayin same thing about us

[@monsterx3055]

@@jordyv.703 life its out there , its probable just so far spread out that we might as well be alone like 1 civilization for every 100 million galaxies

[@monsterx3055]

@@robertlouisburns no carbon unit

[@AGSammy]

We act like its gone but in all actuality it just started on a journey that will outlast us.

[@lucascastillo9391]

A very small part of you ends up in another thing so you will probably outlast it

[@generalblue5592]

@@lucascastillo9391 which part

[@lucascastillo9391]

@@generalblue5592 wdym which part thats just basic science

[@generalblue5592]

@@lucascastillo9391 like who molecule

[@lucascastillo9391]

@@generalblue5592 what

[@buttersquids]

I hate seeing the death of space probes and missions, makes me feel like I'm losing part of mysself

[@hamsacc]

R.i.p cassini

[@solvingpolitics3172]

Rest In Peace space shuttles.

[@aloky247]

Same here. My heart melted upon hearing Kepler's retiral.

[@buttersquids]

@@FlySuppaMayne Piss off mate if you can't empathise, then what's the point of just insulting us

[@SaurabhYadavlucknowwaale]

I can feel you

[@fikipilot]

I miss the Voyager crafts, already. What brilliant engineering!!! NASA and JPL scienced the hell out of this project!

[@primalspace]

Agreed!

[@HENRY-wh1in]

You did a great job sodier... Carrying humanity's hope

[@lilacdragon346]

I came to Learn something, but I leave depressed

[@vincem4756]

SAME!!

[@Blue_Lugia]

Same

[@FlexBeanbag]

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[@cccp653]

Hmm

[@christopherjones318]

Wow. People believe this shit

[@Onarbeon]

Voyager 1: “my reactor is dying, im getting sleepy”

[@fjrinf]

IM ON TEARS i remembered opportunity and its brother accomplished their missions on mars.. it's really sad

[@erkany33]

the cookies are done xD

[@corycrombie9148]

Planetarisch Akrobatisch Final Space

[@erkany33]

@@corycrombie9148 yeah xd

[@jjt171]

alright, who's cutting some onions????

[@jean-marcandjoshua-petsjournal]

Thank you Voyager 1 and 2. You have served Humanity and Earth with unrelenting loyalty. Safe travels, whereever you are travelling to.

[@BravenTheRaven]

The 10,000 year old black knight satellite gave voyager 1 the cheat sheet on how to...go the distance. Lol I wish it the best. Let's hope that golden record gets picked up some day.

[@fascinatedweeb9324]

One day an alien will show up at the court, claiming that this hit his spaceship on the highway

[@ergo6264]

Insurance claim 😂

[@komin01]

This is the comment that will be a memorial 500 years later

[@mikmak3450]

LOOOL

[@BillAnt]

GEICO! Yo quero space shit? xD

[@justmiles8651]

And here I couldn't get signal from my own wifi router

[@clavichord]

.... to improve wifi signal... launch into space

[@clavichord]

@butchtropic lilengine was replying to my sarcastic joke about launching the wifi router into space to improve wifi signal... and said add solar panels... not about voyager... we know it's nuclear fuelled

[@dfgdfg_]

@butchtropic why are you name calling?

[@ToddHowar.d]

butchtropic talk some shit like that irl and you gonna be found in a ditch. Drop the tough guy act cause we all know you are some sad pussy and taking out your anger on KZbin comments.

[@ToddHowar.d]

butchtropic also, millennials left Facebook because dumbass baby boomers invaded it. We use Instagram and Snapchat. Get a clue loser

[@koiyujo1543]

will miss you guys will forever remember you our voyagers and as soon as communications stop it's only the beginning of their journey

[@ace_fighter8850]

Doesn't anyone think that one day humanity could evolve technology to such a standard that we could possible recover voyager 1

[@TheGamingCanadian]

Like warp drive?

[@steveo601]

No

[@ace_fighter8850]

@@TheGamingCanadian star trek type shit

[@stargazer7644]

Not likely.

[@gregorionbazaidi8238]

In 2027 Voyager be like: Change da world. My final message. Goodb ye.

[@SaulxDR]

Gold

[@justallama1447]

@@SaulxDR always belive in your soul

[@j6de]

Imagine the last picture was a group of aliens taking a group selfie

[@devedee2393]

@@zhurs-mom slofies.... duh

[@FendiYT]

U mean demonic entities

[@thebringer6216]

Flicking us off...

[@chewinggum5550]

I bet central one would be my school principal

[@gabbytimpug8399]

@@thebringer6216 ahahahaha

[@hijwomark8580]

what such a rare information , many thanks .

[@aviralshukla5656]

Why is this almost making me cry😢🥺

[@MichaelOrtega]

The question is, how much will we miss after the Voyager reaches the next habitable solar system....

[@whosjulez1157]

Voyager will basically never reach a next system. I think it will pass by the next system in a huge distance in around 60 000 years

[@roundysquares]

By the time that happens, we are either extinct or have already settled that system

[@csgstormer]

@@roundysquares 🤯bro🤯 it's like we hit a home run then ran and caught it before it went over the fence 😂

[@rhysabel2276]

@@whosjulez1157 not a galaxy. If Voyager was heading in the right direction it would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest star system. It would take over 44 billion years for Voyager to reach Andromeda our closest galaxy in our neighborhood. That's over 3 times the current age of the universe. In that amount of time Andromeda won't even exist anymore it'll just be millions of cosmic blackholes.

[@harveywallbanger2899]

Michael Ortega As far as the imagination of all space cadets.

[@dokscy44]

Imagine if someone finds it, fixes it and sends it back to us with a note : "you're not alone in this journey".

[@BuckBewENOfficial]

It would be a proof we exist if anything happens to us first.

[@tuyphanvan9647]

And we'll be like: Dude we took 50 years to get him that far and you SENT HIM BACK? ALIENS?

[@stevenkendzierski9333]

I would piss my pants.

[@KelNg130]

There should literally be a sci-fi movie similar to that. Like a few months after the last signal from Voyager 1, scientist begin picking up its signal again, which is stronger than ever, and make a shocking discovery that it's heading back towards earth (where aliens captured, reverse engineered, tracked and followed Voyager 1 signal back to earth).

[@iulian207]

@@KelNg130 that would be a very nice ideea

[@FredPlanatia]

It's really amazing what we can achieve with technology. We can communicate over virtually any distance if the receiver is sufficiently sensitive. The distance to Proxima Centauri (where the closest terrerstrial exoplanet in a habitable zone is located) is 4.2 light years or 40 trillion kilometers from us. Recently project Breakthrough Listen detected a signal coming from that direction which looks like it has a technological origin. Breakthrough Project Starshot proposes to accelerate tiny probes to ~10% of lightspeed using lightsails propelled by powerful lasers from within the solar system towards the Alpha Centauri system to investigate it. Due to the capability to detect signals from such a distance we could actually investigate the nearest star systems up close and send back signals from such probes! Incredible!

[@jkgou1]

Thank you very much for this great report Actually this great satellite always on old school boys’ mind. The greatest remote control toy ever built

[@josephcataloni]

He protec He attac But most importantly, he ain’t coming back :(

[@lordvenom4419]

When humanity is about to get extinct. from nowhere voyager 1 comes from the sky and save.... Thats a prophecy.

[@poppinmollywityobtch]

no he will come back in 40,000 years

[@sillygoose635]

@@poppinmollywityobtch no.

[@squarehead6452]

it's bacc you oop

[@daniloking223]

Like my dad

[@Paul-ou1rx]

This made me so sad, I just had to go find my old flip phone and give it a hug.

[@manichinna]

❤️

[@mohit_baggu]

😭😭😭

[@seansarath]

Thank for sharing

[@Tchipo100]

Unbelievebal ! VY TNX for Your nice tubes !

[@theevilwithin8946]

03:51 “Never to be heard from... ever again.” This kinda made me sad.

[@plumberman4u]

Wowsers. I felt sad too. 😢

[@MyTrickyTricks]

Well, there is actually a decent chance that humans will be able to recover it in the future.

[@emilstnt3495]

@@MyTrickyTricks how?

[@MyTrickyTricks]

@@emilstnt3495 Assuming that we will be able to make spaceships 1000 times faster or maybe even more, it shouldn't be a problem recovering it in the future. From wikipedia (Wait calculation) Wait calculation It has been argued that an interstellar mission that cannot be completed within 50 years should not be started at all. Instead, assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity and not yet having reached the limit, the resources should be invested in designing a better propulsion system. This is because a slow spacecraft would probably be passed by another mission sent later with more advanced propulsion (the incessant obsolescence postulate). Assuming this will be the case, I would be surprised if a generation 400 years from now won't recover such an iconic and historic step of humanity, considering they will probably have passed it plenty of times already. It would probably be considered as "ancient space technology".

[@emilstnt3495]

@@MyTrickyTricks voyager 1 is a space probe the size of a car a faster spaceship wont find it easier

[@Soofgi20]

I kinda feel sad for the voyager 1 for dying...

[@MrFancyFingers]

Vger!

[@pachma405]

I thought it was sad too. But then I thought, maybe when it reaches the next solar system, somebody might change the batteries and Voyager 1 can live again.

[@kimtonginn747]

Sxover me too

[@Wrestlelesson]

:'(

[@varunkotharkar3472]

Sxover it’s the background music nothing else

[@cmgBio]

dude honestly this was very effing interesting to listen too like woah

[@Mr.beanuwu]

I’m sad I do not want Voyager 1 to die in the darkness of space I want to continue its journey on.😭😭😭😭

[@nopls1]

@Kemal the nearest black hole is 25k light years away

[@kingsfleet21]

It will wander round our galaxy long after the sun swells and engulfs our earth.

[@ChakshulPandya]

*Voyager 1:* NASA! I don't feel so good... :(

[@oishidaifuku9745]

:(

[@Patoeh]

Hablo español pero de todos modos me dio tristeza.

[@Patoeh]

:(

[@abdulkarimsaleh]

objects can't feel like us dumbass

[@deutschrapcomedy2524]

@@abdulkarimsaleh you dont say 😵

[@Charlie-ov1bj]

Every time i hear that a space craft will die or we will never hear from it again... I cant hold back my tears... I Love voyager...

[@NyanHomeschoolGirl17]

Roborav Pussy isn’t an insult. But *you* are definitely an asshole

[@Lymbe06]

Ok let's just cool it with the tears, it's doing what it was literally built for.

[@azaldie]

I, too, felt a little sting of sadness when I heard the part about when we'll lose contact with it.

[@emilianomartinez6935]

Bobs and Vagene pls

[@gollese]

Yeah, supposed to last 5 years lol 😀💪

[@kennedysan1045]

Such a great project...wish I followed it more growing up. It'll be sad when the batteries go out.

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

I truly LOVE how it's not 100% impossible for the movie, "Star Trek: the Motion Picture," could actually still happen. Go, Vyger, Go!

[@MediaFaust]

"Never to be heard from ever again" ... unless Star Trek.

[@DesertSessions93]

Not the dreaded V'GER!

[@georgehenderson7783]

@@DesertSessions93 Yes! V'GER! Lt. Ilia : [Ilia the probe] You are the Kirk Unit. You will assist me. I've been programmed by V'Ger to observe and record normal functions of the carbon-based units infesting USS Enterprise.

[@shady8045]

That movie was cool, I remember watching it when I was a kid. Good times

[@willk7184]

@@shady8045 Yes, underrated film.

[@whatsascrewdriver5572]

@@willk7184 - Agreed. But "The Toupée" was awful. And Yeoman Rand was unrecognizable; they could have at least recreated her hairdo. Bad hair movie.

[@gensismatt7025]

Aliens be like: “The Aliens sent us this, we are not alone”

[@andreac9901]

In facts, inside Voyager there Is a gold disc with information about us

[@Project_VideoGame]

@@andreac9901 it's displayed, not inside

[@andreac9901]

@@Project_VideoGame ah

[@BillAnt]

Maybe the aliens will catch it, melt it down, and make some beer cans out of it. xD

[@sumans7620]

@@Project_VideoGame It’s an actual, physical disc inside the Voyager 1 and 2. Crafted by a Team Lead by Carl Sagan Himself

[@CornballPath420]

The fact that this came along in my home feed while we got the news of losing contact to Voyager 2 sends me--

[@Hewhowalksbehindtherows]

I(as many others have) wondered if extraterrestrials will ever find Voyager. It's odd to think that such an object may outlast the human race as a species.

[@melo3932]

Imagine if Voyager 1 is able to take it last picture with interstellar space and send it to us before losing it power. That would be a masterpiece tho.

[@jacobsanchez1789]

I thought of that but I remember watching a video saying that it would almost be impossible to do that.

[@dq1275]

There is also the fact that no one from the original Voyager programming team works at JPL/NASA anymore that recalls the coding expertise to make these changes safely. Nor does anyone learn that programming language anymore. I believe they have called some people out of retirement to maintain the current status, but a major function change that requires programming expertise could be risky at this point and could disable the spacecrafts.

[@dq1275]

@@jacobsanchez1789 That's because the plutonium aboard does not provide sufficient power to run the cameras anymore due to radioactive decay.

[@mechanicalturkproductions7349]

@@dq1275 maybe just shut off some other instruments?

[@dq1275]

@Tudor Andrei Oprea 88 years but not at full power, which has now degraded to ~50%. NASA predicts their will be insufficient power to transmit by 2032 even though performance from the thermocouples transforming power from reactor is better than expected. The power needed to effectively communicate with Earth is also increasing due to the inverse-square law causing dilution of signal from the spacecrafts. NASA [they]“continue operating until around 2025 when the available electrical power will no longer support science instrument operation. At this time science data return and spacecraft operations will end. “ “As the electrical power decreases, power loads on the spacecraft must be turned off in order to avoid having demand exceed supply. As loads are turned off, some spacecraft capabilities are eliminated.” voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/

[@pilt6569]

Voyager: “I need 20 hours to get information” My ping in video games: “Hello”

[@thesportsguy3088]

Mostly Pubg loo

[@somecallmeelvis]

What nasa needs either a router or relay tower for a faster signal oh wait nasa keeps saying we don't have the funds for technology for it

[@lilchad-ig1oj]

somecallmeelvis its true as they only get like 20ish billion dollars per year honestly remove 100bil from army and give it to nasa so we get the mars faster

[@TheSamPGita]

@@lilchad-ig1oj We already have one of the strongest militaries in the world, why not make give a small loan to NASA?

[@themultiroundergamer6073]

@@TheSamPGita Yeah, and it's not like World War 3 is coming

[@vineshparemmal4697]

Really Amazing, Beyond the limit of our imagination.

[@tanker1425]

awesome video