NASA Reestablishes Contact With Voyager 2! Where Is It Headed Now?

[@tomdickinson8450]

My first wife and I were married for less than 2 years when we started working at a small company out of Farmington Michigan called Computer Engineering. The founder/Owner was able to obtain several contracts with the US government which kept us quite busy. I worked on a Stereo graphic plotter, which was used in Flagstaff Arizona at the Defense Mapping Agency. Another contract was Assembling the wiring harnesses for the voyager one and two projects. It’s funny to think that those harnesses lasted longer than the company who provided them and, at 72 years old, they may even outlast me. It’s nice to think that something I worked on so long ago, is still working to this day. Of course, I did build my first computer and it’s still working today…if I could only find it. 😁🇺🇸

[@tomdickinson8450]

LET’S GO VIGER!!!

[@Bok2022st]

Tom do you think it is a betrayal to send out to gold discs telling possible alien. Life everything they need to know to invade and destroy the human race as they have given them everything they need to know.did anyone give that a thought to they may not be friendly. and may invade perhaps. this as already started this is why we are seeing more and more strange sightings of creatures and things in the sky. The whole of my town heard trumpets and mechanical found filling up the whole Sky it was absolutely terrifying. we are under invasion already all because of 2 gold discs what is your thought on this I think it is a betrayal and the people that did this should be fed birdseed and put in very small cages as they betrayed the whole human race because they had questions. this is only my opinion I am interested in yours and I do not get offended so just tell me your thoughts if you could thank you.🇦🇺👍

[@gikukoshy]

Thank u for serving Humankind.

[@NaysWRLD]

Really admire your work... Amazing probe ever made🥳🥳🥳🥳💕💕👌💯

[@leluthor5357]

Congratulations!!! You should be proud.

[@sergioreyes298]

It fills me with a quaint and nostalgic sadness to think of these spacecraft being so lonely, so utterly alone in deep space. And yet, still working when when commanded to do so. These are our emissaries to the stars.

[@gravoc857]

One day, humanity may progress so much that it will be reasonable for us to send missions to retrieve these craft, to be reunited with humanity.

[@josefkozenk7971]

@@gravoc857 bro that would be insane

[@ellazelensky]

What a thing to imagine. Very sad but beautifully articulated

[@markmiller3713]

Well the good news is that it's metal and doesn't have emotions so I'm sure it's fine.

[@andcam2683]

I too am deeply saddened when my phone runs out of charge. Sitting in my pocket in complete darkness being unable to illuminate while its jostling around with my wallet. I only take solice in knowing when I plug it in, it takes a few moments to itself as if to simultaneously question why I have failed it and take a much needed break.

[@nickllama5296]

I was a young lad when they launched the Voyagers, and I watched the launch on TV (not live, I lived on the other side of the world), and I was so amazed by what we were doing. That we were going to send space craft that wouldn't start reporting back for years and even DECADES later. It was mind boggling. And now they're in interstellar space (and have been for a long time). It's incredible to think about.

[@venombhai69]

@David S Onassis Yooooooooo you watched it leave earth, sooooo lucky!

[@1tonyboat]

I always think about the` Star Trek movie` when i see this sort of you tube clip,,,,

[@Eskay1206]

I consider myself lucky too, got to watch the lead up to and the moon landings . I saw all the launches from viking, mariner, gemini and apollo missions to the Columbia disaster , I hope I live long enough to see Elon Musk succeed with people on Mars

[@williamescolantejr5871]

@David S Onassis I was in junior high school when the voyeger ships were launched.Never in my wildest imaginations did i think they would be still going,a lesson for all about building an design done right

[@Shan_Dalamani]

@Praise Jesus, Repent or Likewise Perish Take your preaching somewhere else.

[@RedGuardian787]

Not a bad technological achievement for a relatively "young species" when compared to the overall age of the entire universe.

[@anhilatorofignorance2584]

With Time our Acceleration in science is increasing like a Exponential Growth

[@jamesfry8983]

@@anhilatorofignorance2584 True but nuclear fusion reactors are still always 20 years away

[@algladyou]

Earth is a virus. We are gonna infect the neighbor planets. Lol!

[@Ozone280]

If, as a species, we could apply the reason we show with scientific achievements to superstitious woo woo, imagine the advances we could make!

[@karthiksukumaran85]

@@algladyou Minor correction. Humans are virus infecting 🌎. Also thinking about infecting new planets.

[@h.dejong2531]

We didn't lose contact. Every day, we kept receiving data from Voyager 2. The only thing we couldn't do was send new commands to Voyager 2 because the transmitter was being replaced. 3:38 Currently, tape recorder playback is done at 1400 bits/s. This occurs once every 6 months. Playback at this speed requires the use of an array of a 70 m antenna with 3 34 m antennas, i.e. all of the large antennas at a DSN complex. 9:50 Each of the three DSN complexes has one 70 m antenna, not just Goldstone. 10:38 Voyager 2 is visible only from the Canberra DSN complex, because the spacecraft is South of the ecliptic plane. The transmitter on the 70 m antenna (DSS 43) at Canberra had to be replaced. And why are you showing random clipart instead of a photo of the actual antenna?

[@johnlarkin9594]

That's an outstanding analysis, you make this easy to understand, thank you. Southampton UK.

[@d.a.u.d]

Props to H. De Jong for being amazing

[@tomtomdu97]

Mon oh man

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Thank you!!!

[@williamwalker6071]

Thanks! BTW, "tape recorder" is still running? Wow.

[@justaguy6100]

it's astonishing to me that within the space of my lifetime we crafted two devices and sent them on a journey well beyond our solar system, and they're still working 44 years later, sending us data from interstellar space.

[@joemariejames4757]

Space is real? I thought.....

[@Poppa_Capinyoaz]

Especially considering how hostile outer space is to computers. And how primitive those ones are.

[@Ironcammandoo]

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[@Jay-cn3js]

@@Poppa_Capinyoaz yeah I think this is another one of NASA's many lies. The intense radiation of Interstellar space would of cooked any electronics made in early 70's. Doubt even now we have materials that could last long in deep space. Let alone tec made in the 70's pre dating the Super Nintendo... NASA, Never A Straight Answer

[@reginaromsey]

@@Poppa_Capinyoaz possibly they were so overbuilt in those days. A bit like Oak Ridge and Hanford which have survived long enough to really cause trouble.

[@drock9083]

12+ billion miles and not a scratch that's a fine example of just how big even the known universe is

[@Naymy]

I just find it mind blowing that some of the most advanced tech ever made has less processing power than my mobile. Yeah, I know technology improves over time and technically those probes aren't "advanced tech" anymore, but still, it is impressive when you hear the numbers. Makes you wonder what we could do now if we launched Voyager 3 and 4 to visit the outer planets with the intention of measuring what lies at the edge of our solar system and beyond.

[@RidinDirtyRollinBurnouts]

They made it to the moon with the processing power of a pocket calculator. Let that sink in

[@beta_cygni1950]

We can't. The entire purpose of the voyager program was to take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime planetary alignment to explore the outer solar system (occuring only every 173 years). Besides, the purpose of the voyager program was never to "explore outside the solar system". That was just a byproduct of the ACTUAL purpose, which was to do a "quick sightseeing tour" flyby of he outer planets. And the voyager mission objective is now largely irrelevant, since we have transitioned to longer term orbiting probes of the outer planets (like the Cassini probe for Saturn & the Juno probe for Jupiter). All that said, NASA launched New Horizons in 2006 to specifically do a fly-by of Pluto (which occured in 2015) and some other Kuiper belt objects. It is now in the Kuiper belt, more than 50AU away.

[@timlamiam]

they made it to the fucking moon and back when pocket calculators were so cutting edge that they weren't readily available for mass consumption. Truly incredible.

[@pamus6242]

For those who dont know 57kbps is AWESOME speed for the 70s.

[@fredrodriguez7220]

True but I think we should revisit the mission with our technology

[@HAMZA-OLYMPUS]

@@fredrodriguez7220 Why? Re-exploring the same place would be pointless

[@buzzshocker1069]

@@HAMZA-OLYMPUS With that logic Going to the moon was pointless at the first place, Space isn't A logical or profitable thing yet, We are doing it just because we Believe it someday will be.

[@CrimmzZT]

@@buzzshocker1069 this man gets space travel

[@pamus6242]

@@fredrodriguez7220 A new mission probably but the real problem is making a plutonium battery is more of a political problem than a technical problem at any level. Our technology has increased beyond but our cognition has stunted to partisan biases.

[@obiwanshinobi76]

It's amazing that the technology we have today doesn't last as long as these probes 🤦‍♂️

[@hemanthvkmccskvjgy1017]

They were engineered to not last. planned obsolescence

[@theloneranger8725]

It's not complicated to understand; it's really quite simple. The two Voyager probes WERE NOT MADE IN CHINA! The technology is American, not Chinese. So is the quality.

[@mikejones-go8vz]

@@theloneranger8725 except for Chryslers

[@radar_x8613]

You do realize it is a completely different use case. Are you still using electronic technology from the 1970's? of course and why not. It goes without saying that the electronics we send into space are designed to last a very long time since one can't retrieve it to repair and the cost is not an issue.

[@radar_x8613]

@@theloneranger8725 That is a silly response.

[@Speedluke]

Interesting to think about the fact, that whatever we launch into deep space, when and if it is found we are so far more advanced than that probe...

[@acdp61]

What more, by the time other intelligent life discovers that probe, we humans might be extinct at that time already or have moved to a different planet/star system. Making it impossible for the other life who discovered it to communicate back to us

[@annahappen7036]

@@acdp61 now that sounds like a cool sci-fi book: about someone from another planet far in the future finding it and starting the search to see where we are now and IF we still are.

[@Blazeww]

Yet can't reach the moon currently....

[@ClappOnUpp]

It will probably be us just recovering it in the future

[@aimlessgamre2065]

I Hope soon that aliens will soon find it and come to earth maybe that has already happened and that is how we got the signal from the vigor

[@mikef-gi2dg]

I started my computer career one year before the launch of both craft. I started in magnetic tape to be specific. When they talk about the capacity of the recordings, that sticks right to my bones. Reel to reel was the thing. Those numbers were ground breaking back then. A lot has happened since then, is a massive understatement today. But some reel to reel 1970's two off technology, that is still working today, off script is mind blowing!!! When I tell my younger counterparts that some of those dirt slow computers made back then, which can't compete with modern technology of today, would survive far longer that what is made today...THIS IS WHAT i AM TAKING ABOUT. Amazing!

[@クソ-q7i]

Uhh, sorry to tell you this, but Kbps doesn't stand for kilobytes per second, it stands for Kilobits per second. The abbreviation for either being bits = b, bytes = B.

[@bobuccman1424]

1 bit is 1/8 of a byte so that movie aint coming down in 8 years

[@クソ-q7i]

Thanks for all the upvotes and the heart.

[@mikeblazey3906]

Ok big head

[@TheExoplanetsChannel]

*_Does anybody else here love Destiny?_*

[@JORDANATEALEX4]

me

[@vinothg4846]

Me too

[@Tech-gv6qk]

Fcked i read the channel as Disney 😵😆😆 i was confused why would Disney upload a NASA thing.

[@zeusandathena4094]

Ummmmmm, yes. Thats why we subscribe 🙂

[@Albertandearthie]

I do

[@MikoTP]

I really need to stop humanizing these space crafts/probes coz I keep thinking how sad it is to be alone in space and continuously float further and further away from earth. Just like how previous crafts and probes executed their last mission before either dying out of energy or plunging into a planet's atmosphere. Nevertheless, Voyagers 1 and 2 did and are still doing a really great job for science! Nice to hear some updates from them!

[@Jaezzyx]

Yeees, I always get so sad thinking about the Opportunity Rover for example. How it ran out of battery power because of a dust storm and no contact could be established anymore. It really makes me sad. 😅

[@firstjayjay]

Made me think of star trek. The voyage home. So fitting

[@OCRay1]

I can’t believe that I was only a couple months old when these two launched and we are still talking to the Voyagers. It’s amazing!! Really cool. Hopefully some alien species will return them to us some day.

[@TyxSlasher]

Crazy isn’t it?

[@StuckinaPainting]

Depends if we’d exist around that time.

[@majtom5421]

Its just amazing how much Voyager has contributed to our knowledge base. What really smart engineers designed and built Voyager. I could only imagine their amazement.

[@carlharrison3637]

Im such a child, I still laughed when he said the voyager took a photo of uranus.

[@ythelag4027]

Sends chills down my spine knowing how little we are. Still, another great video!

[@beee3339]

Then think about how big we are to the smallest things. Humans are about half way in size from the smallest thing in the universe to the observable universe.

[@aimlessgamre2065]

I mean we are little now but in the near future everything will change

[@zabiarayyan7056]

exactly. and belive it or not there are people on this planet that don't even know all these things even exist. They think its just earth, sun and the moon. trust me I asked someone in Afghanistan one day and they didn't know about anything. I asked how much the sun is bigger than the earth and the guy was like "I heared its like 2 times bigger than earth" lol

[@aimlessgamre2065]

@@zabiarayyan7056 you can about fit 100 earths surface in the suns surface

[@pmgodfrey]

Launched in 1977 and still communicates with earth. Meanwhile, I can't get a good cell signal in my house and my ice maker works like 12% of the time.

[@MrStupidHead]

But for the price and maintainence of one of these, you get 10,000 icemakers all making ice. It is all about where you choose to spend your money.

[@basvanderwerff2725]

@@MrStupidHead maintenance? they cant maintenance these

[@MrStupidHead]

@@basvanderwerff2725 the ongoing cost for mission control. Call it maintenance support systems if you like.

[@promerops]

5:56 Voyager 1 left the plane of the solar system's ecliptic after visiting Saturn, thus it did not photograph Neptune; that was Voyager 2.

[@mcarp555]

Nor did it photograph Uranus. It was meant to get close-up photos of Titan, so after that it was hurled out of the ecliptic.

[@powertankanimations242]

indeed lmao

[@BigBalthazarr]

anyone else want to acknowledge how impressive the power supply is to keep everything running over decades?

[@shrimpflea]

Plutonium will do that for you.

[@walnutmartin3991]

Great content keep up the good work

[@heathenthatheretic5960]

It's astounding that a satellite with the basic power or less of a cellphone and still keep going decades later. Imagine what we're going to be able to do in another 50 years from now. 🤯

[@r.a.6459]

Your 2nd sentence reminds me of a documentary about far reaches of the solar system.

[@heathenthatheretic5960]

@@r.a.6459 🤣😂🤣 hope that's a good thing. I think

[@shrimpflea]

They're not satellites, they are deep space probes. The problem with new tech is that a lot of them are not made with that sort of reliability and robustness. Part of their longevity is due to the simplicity and sturdiness of the compenents, and the plutonium fuel to keep it active.

[@heathenthatheretic5960]

@@shrimpflea thank you for pointing that out. They're probes

[@TheKeenTribe]

If I'm correct, they're currently over 3X past the orbit of Pluto and their signal strength is 20 billion times weaker than a digital watch! And I just realized it's mentioned at 10:10. It's so mind-blowing!

[@NarendraTirunagari]

Thanks for sharing the interesting facts both the space crafts. It's really a great job of sending commands to the space craft, flying with such enormous speed, and yet flabbergasting to receive a nod from it again.

[@FactsFunEdu]

From Bapatla I am reading your comment

[@zeusandathena4094]

Excellent content as usual. Thank you. Cheers from Kingston Ontario Canada. Stay safe and healthy 🙂

[@glennkwong7415]

I was just graduated from high school when vo1 launched, now I am 71 yrs old, that toy still flying, how amazing.

[@hlec]

Now a man your age has died

[@phishfearme2]

we've heard back from a civilization who successfully played the gold-plated record. their response: "send more Chuck Berry"

[@TheSpink02]

I was in 4th grade when these launched and remember reading about it in school in The Weekly Reader that we used to get in class. How much the world has changed since then. Crazy to think it's just barely left our solar system in that time. We'll probably all be extinct by the time it even gets close to another star, if it happens to makes it that far.

[@r.a.6459]

To think about coming within 1.7 light years of a nearest star is mind blowing... the probes haven't even nowhere near that distance since launchday. At their current speeds, it'll take 17000-19000 years to cover a light-year. But hey, we or our childrens or our childrens' childrens can have its 100-year anniversary, set the date for 2077!!

[@abelis644]

@@r.a.6459 Our descendants, lol, not our ancestors.😉 We'll be the ancestors by then.

[@r.a.6459]

@@abelis644 thanks for spotting!!

[@drake.707]

I did 4th grade too. It was hella easy. It only took me 2 tries.

[@wjgraham63]

I remember being in the 7th grade when the Voyagers were launched. So excited back then. Really got into reading the magazine Astronomy and seeing the photos coming back as they passed the planets. Exciting times. I have kept up with the probes as well as all the others. (How about those photos of Pluto by Horizons?) I still learned new things in this video on them. I was not fully aware of how "little" or "weak",the power of the signals were. I knew they were weak, but about the digital watch info. Wow! Thank you for the video! Very informative! 👍🙂

[@MaxGiganteum]

I think about how different things were in the US at the time... and how screwed up we've become! A bunch of idiots will most likely vote to confirm another idiot to the supreme court... one that cannot even define what a woman is! We put men on the moon in the equivalent of a spam can. Now? People believe that men can be women and vice-versa! Lord save us all!!! 🤦‍♂️🙄😠

[@philosgameselectronics6963]

I would love to see them in space one day when I'm gone, I will definitely look for them 💝💝

[@thetwilightjourneys]

It'd be amazing if the civilisation that finds, and powers either Voyager 1, or Voyager 2, or both back up is us in the far future, thus making their journeys come full circle.

[@definitelynotadreamstan3247]

It would be nearly impossible. We could travel faster than it but having hundreds of billions of kilometers of a lead would be so mind bogglingly hard to catch up to.

[@Spinosaurus44]

Imagine us becoming so advanced that we acquire the technology to travel at the speed of light, or at least closer to it than these two probes

[@sincerewyd2285]

Wow! I have always loved this project from NASA.. just imagine, in like.. 3,000 years if humanity is of a type 3 civilization by than. Humans can go capture the crafts and place them in a musuem

[@gravoc857]

We’ll likely be type 2 in 3,000 years, if we survive. Type 3, we’re looking at an aggressive estimate of 2-5 million years. Likely longer to become a full type 3. Unless we make extreme paradigm shifts in our understanding of physics.

[@mitchellscanga747]

Eh millions of years seems too long. Maybe A million.

[@mitchellscanga747]

Wcould totally explore and utilize the power of our galaxy in less than a million years.

[@JMazzaTaz]

@@mitchellscanga747 I agree. Look how far we’ve come in only 100 years. Even a thousand years into the future will probably supersede our current imagination. You never know…

[@mitchellscanga747]

@@JMazzaTaz Exactly and its going at an exponential rate.

[@OfficialItsJebrael]

thankyou for making this video. i really love to watch about the voyager 1 and 2 also this channel is the best

[@fromnorway643]

5:51 None of the Voyagers flew by Venus, and only Voyager 2 passed Uranus and Neptune.

[@drake.707]

Yeah and trump totally won the second election. And the earth isn't flat.

[@anthonyvonkoenigsegg]

Great video , love space

[@healthy_live_for_all]

Amazing Video!!!!!

[@rsl6767]

Excellent work.. just the update I needed 👍

[@gemsbond4811]

Simply stunning, clear, and absolutly awesome. Thanks for the good content !

[@arthurwagar6224]

Great comments. Going to watch the video. Well worth watching. Thanks for good stuff.

[@davidturner3891]

Incredible that with so little power, so much can be achieved. Great video!

[@QuetzalcoatlOdin]

I think I also beg some questions about what's happened since.

[@terrirowe9944]

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[@Jakaster29]

Wouldn't it be cool if far off in the future when the voyager probes are long forgotten humans found them? What a time capsule that would be.

[@abelis644]

Watch the first Star Trek movie...

[@Abah_Vina]

"How"s that for reliability ?" OLD SCHOOL ROCK !!!!

[@uprightlizard3774]

We will probably end up catching the voyagers up in the far future

[@_.syedduraid14]

Your vedeos are soo amazing and inspiring to watch aswell as informative

[@thakgayayaar]

And to think that the species which achieved this decades back, is still killing each other over pieces of land and disagreement over ideas. We could have been masters of space and time, we could have been gods, truly immortal and everlasting. That we are not there yet, is an absurdity of staggering proportions.

[@b3j8]

Indeed. Wouldn't it be ironic if an intelligent Species found a Voyager, and decided to return it only to discover we had nuked ourselves into oblivion.🙄

[@bajsapa3892]

@@b3j8 LMFAO 😂😅

[@DaTruPiNoY1]

Amazing how tech from the 60s lasted this long and trough environments unconceivable at their time with tech less than a retro watch yet still bringing about data of their journeys. Our engineers and architects of then and now are underrated and forgotten yet are the pioneers for our future travels

[@cranegantry868]

NASA engineering at its finest. Thank you NASA.

[@markyinbelfastxx9088]

If only they hadn't thrown out the technology that got us to the moon hmmm

[@bobgreene2892]

Remarkably excellent quality video-- fascinating content, with superb narrative and graphics. We quickly subscribed to this first video of the Destiny series, and look forward to more.

[@awelshphoto]

@5:57 Voyager 1 did not capture photos of Uranus or Neptune, that was Voyager 2. Voyager 1 instead did a flyby of Saturn's moon Titan, at the expense of being able to go to Uranus and Neptune.

[@hajrasajid5766]

Amazing waiting for next video

[@leewightman8001]

44 years and still going strong

[@sdaniel9129]

Thank you for the update! Greetings from the Netherlands...

[@deerinheadlights9784]

This is amazing. Wondering why we can’t/don’t send more of these objects into space?

[@mrhg123]

money.

[@elinisguy]

@@mrhg123 One of the reasons is money 100%, but there are other reasons, too. like it is no longer a priority for some reason.

[@caseyalbright2762]

@@elinisguy carefull the truth is potentially dangerous to your mind. Literally.

[@tolgeh3443]

@@elinisguy cold war dude

[@QuetzalcoatlOdin]

Money is not the issue. Come on we build bombs that are more expensive than that device, and drop them regularly on other human beings.

[@dougmacmcclelland1323]

As and not to old NASA EE that worked at Goddard at the time of launch, where part of the Voyager was designed, yes I am truly amazed that it still works. The main computer was an RCA CDP1802 and it worked in 4k pages of ROM and RAM. This was one of the very first CMOS processor at the time.

[@johnjeffrey758]

I thoroughly enjoy this program. I have listened 5 or 6 times. So thank you. I'm sorry to say, you may want to consider your calculations regarding the voyagers approaching stars in other galaxies in 40,000 years. In 40,000 years Voyager 1 would only have reached a distance of approximately 3 light years at best. Correct me if I am wrong.

[@SienAppelsien]

I also remember the golden plates having a map of where to find our planet, based on nearby neutron stars. With recent discoveries, the map wont be as easy to figure out anymore as people originally thought

[@swenic]

I can watch instrument explanations for over an hour. Comon, don't hide the goodies man.

[@vijetkulkarni7360]

Excellent bro like it. Lov from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@dragon8623]

Dammit we are too early for humanity to travel into interstellar space......

[@gamingclipz7309]

My grandpa was part of this program. He worked on the power part of the voyager. He wouldn’t go into a lot of detail he said it wasn’t secret but their was certain things they can’t say. He said there are many many more probes in space then the public knows about

[@luismariofloresalcaraz8804]

Extraordinario.!!! .Felicito a este grupo de Científicos por tantos logros para la ciencia de la Astronomía para el beneficio de la humanidad... gracias 🙏

[@MrFieldhill]

Is it possible for the James webb telescope to spot one of the voyagers? Just wondering 🤷🏻‍♂️🙃

[@fromnorway643]

No, they are far too small to be seen from ~20 billion km away.

[@h.dejong2531]

@@fromnorway643 They're really bright in the IR though (2 kW power source). A radio telescope can see Voyager's 20W transmission. It'll be close to the edge of what JWST can see, but I think it's possible.

[@fromnorway643]

@@h.dejong2531 A 2 kW heat source visible from ~20 billion km away? I don't think so. If that energy is emitted as IR in all directions, the energy intensity or density as received here on Earth would be about 4 x 10¯²⁵ watts per square metre. For comparison, the faintest stars visible by the Hubble - after _very_ long exposures - are about magnitude 30, corresponding to roughly 2.5 x 10¯²⁰ watts per square metre at the receiving end. That's about 60,000 times brighter than the IR radiation from Voyager, and it's worth noting that the collecting area of the JWST is only about 6 times larger than that of the Hubble (25.4 m² vs 4 m²), not 60,000. Radio telescopes receiving the telemetry from space probes are much larger and thus much more sensitive than any existing or planned optical telescope.

[@jetpond7904]

No.

[@jetpond7904]

@@h.dejong2531 no, they’re far too small.

[@RajKumar-qg9iv]

OLD IS GOLD

[@iknklst]

I do believe it that man has been looking at the night sky for a bit of longer than the last few centuries. Man has looked to the sky for countless millenia, long before the written word was invented.

[@abelis644]

And women too...🙄

[@MyBelch]

@@abelis644 And children. And animals.

[@drake.707]

Yeah reminds me of 9/11

[@wargamerevenge]

it is amazing what Humanity can do when it is not killing each other.

[@vortex4900]

It's scary yet fascinating

[@renciovictorina5537]

specially if a civilization find it and don't know what's plutonium and open just the wrong component and kill some.

[@ConiferousWaffle]

For me it was just truly fascinating....we are a mere microscopic product of randomness...thats what boggles my mind ....

[@aimlessgamre2065]

We are not alone cause we have each other

[@larroyo1973]

Long live the final 2 Mariner spacecrafts , Mariner 11 & 12 (Renamed Voyager 1 & 2).😊

[@HugoTron]

Thank you Destiny. Keep it up

[@kensjap]

What would happen if one the voyagers went so far and still was functional when it hit the edge of the Observable universe? Would it keep going or stop like it hit a wall

[@h.dejong2531]

We have no indication that the edge of the observable universe is the end of the universe.

[@ceretomer5987]

That was so interesting. Thanks.

[@johncase1353]

The probes are still working fine yet new smartphones last about a year.

[@D4rkslider]

Thats because in space there are almost no thing that can damage a probe and its powered by nuclear reactor

[@DMSProduktions]

I remember WHEN these were launched!

[@sentry2020]

Wow! It's like our entire solar system is an organic 'living' interstellar spaceship that carries us through the cosmos...!

[@abelis644]

I sometimes wonder if Life isn't far more than we imagine.

[@kingmandume]

Amazing... Ur presentation..absolute.

[@Steve-sp4rx]

Would be cool if sometime in the distant future, humans become able to travel into interstellar space at high speeds, catch up with these things and bring them back

[@tomdickinson8450]

No

[@josephpowelliii9169]

Utterly amazing....!

[@Davethreshold]

In one of the Startrek Motion Pictures, they ran across one of these! It was a love-filled discovery when Kirk figured out what it was. 🧡

[@mitchellscanga747]

I was just talking about that movie with my coworker. That was one of the coolest episodes. It would be absolutely incredible if we were able to catch up to these probes one day.

[@jamesesselman283]

Great presentation.....concise with excellent narration.

[@sancti3707]

Maybe I missed something - what were the instructions sent to voyager 2 after 7 months silence? Did they generate interesting new data other than that the message reached and was replied to?

[@STho205]

It was a mapping and turn for the antenna signal. Neither we nor Voyager are in the region of the galaxy that was on the initial program life of reaching Neptune and Uranus.

[@sancti3707]

@@STho205 thank you🙏

[@iRemakeMusicalTV]

Amazing content

[@OhFookinELL]

Wouldn’t it be weird in the next few hundred years, humans invent a way going near speed of light and we can go to the destination that the two Voyagers are heading way before they get there.!

[@bajsapa3892]

@SEQ Virtual Tours says your mom, have u ever heard about warpdrives ?

[@bajsapa3892]

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[@franciskariuki6381]

how i love this guy explanation is imaginable

[@Hubblee]

The amazing thing is that by the time the signal reached them, Voyager 2's power had dropped to about 0.1 billion-billionth of a watt! How did it manage to do that? Just imagine that figure - one billionth of a watt!

[@antar9849]

Like!!!

[@dyrian2385]

Rly how 0_0

[@h.dejong2531]

You can receive a signal from so far away with careful design of the transmitter and receiver. Dish antennas concentrate the signal into a narrow cone, providing an enormous amount of gain over omnidirectional antennas. NASA uses a 70 m dish to receive Voyager's signals. You can also build very sensitive receivers by cooling them to cryogenic temperatures (which reduces noise). The DSN can receive signals much weaker than the Voyager's.

[@dhyanamraval]

I always wait for this masterpieces....... video 📹 🎥

[@Ozone280]

Voyager has indeed been intercepted by an alien civilisation after being damaged. They repaired it and restored its programming as best they could and sent it on its way to continue its journey. I know this because I pay attention when I watch Star Trek.

[@jpsned]

Ha! 😀

[@jimiorezzoli]

That was great!!! thanks...

[@branko3258]

It's just unbelievable how small we are, earth in all that vastness is smaller then dust molecule considering the size of universe😳

[@jessewahwah]

Imagine how small a dust molecule is considering the size of the universe.

[@jerry4012]

imagine inside that molecule is an entire universe

[@itsmefriedpotato6429]

@@jerry4012 put that to perspective, think of how tiny our blood cell and compare it to our earth i think that might be good example

[@zeckor.]

All that and our sun is tiny. Hell our galaxy is tiny it’s so surreal and interesting

[@marcusjohnson7441]

What if we're all just little particles in an eye ball of a creature just bumbling about and we call it the universe?

[@Re69.]

This video really interested me more than usual. So cool it can keep up after so many years!

[@victorhardin2186]

With the tech we have now couldn't we just make something similar that would eventually catch up and pass the original voyagers?

[@gravoc857]

It depends. The voyagers were able to utilize several grav-assists in a rare planetary alignment, giving them speeds far beyond what humans could send them at. That alignment won’t happen again for a really long time. So, we have to make something that artificially thrusts the objects into higher velocity. Nuclear & ion thrusters are a possibility.

[@h.dejong2531]

JHUAPL is working on an interstellar mission concept at the moment. The highest speed they've been able to get to using current technology is about twice as high as the Voyagers. It would take decades to catch up to the Voyagers at that speed.

[@raajac2720]

Thank you Voyager 1 and 2 you're are always mesmerizing me .

[@scottlawson9206]

The title of this video is somewhat misleading. And it bugs the crap out of me when videos show the Voyagers seemingly flying backwards- unlike the Starship Enterprise, real spacecraft don't travel with their antenna dishes leading the way- instead, the antenna dish must remain pointed to Earth.

[@eekscar]

Still blows my mind all these KZbin videos stating voyager 1 and 2 launched in the 70s when I was born in 86 and distinctly remember them launching in the 90s primarily because it was major news in order for NASA to get ppl re-interested in space.

[@rdsii64]

Imagine thousands of years from now, one of the voyager probes finds and advanced civilization, and they return the probe to us with all sorts of knowledge.

[@delvinciposterkid]

Thousands of years from now, hopefully, we can find our little friend, and take it further in our starship.

[@theloneranger8725]

Already been done. Didn't you see the first Star Trek movie? Ask Bill Shatner; he'll tell you all about it.

[@mattyal9347]

I think those cosmic rays Voyager detected outside the bubble will destroy both ships

[@AliA.ZSinger]

no.doubt a man made marvel, that proved to be 2 good to rely upon in the deep frontiers of space. we may loose the both spacecraft around 2030 but they have done there job very well in enlightens making about the mysterious universe.

[@nimorachard]

I think one day we will be able to transmit power/energy/soul/spirit/whatever you say to the spaceships to get it working again and send back the picture and info.

[@wolfgangouille]

Soul / spirit ?! What are you talking about?

[@bobuccman1424]

or build faster spacecraft and catch them and deliver them back to earth

[@remi_gio]

Thank you for cleverly teaching the Americans that 1 or 2 is still SPACECRAFT! A real joy and music to the ears to listen to this informative channel ;)