Breakthrough: Voyager 1 “Phones Home” After 40+ Years Using Backup Transmitter

[@WatchtowerHunter]

As impressive as this achievement is (and it is a monumental achievement) consider this: this craft has been traveling for nearly 50 years at high speed and has not yet traveled 1 light day. If that does not give you a feeling of awe at the enormity of the galaxy, let alone the universe, I don’t know what could.

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

It's pretty close at 24 billion out of the 26 billion kilometers of straight line travel of the distance of a light day.

[@Dudleymiddleton]

Yes, and for the last 100 years or so we have been transmitting radio waves, creating a 200 light year diameter bubble, which is a tiny speck on one of the arms of our galaxy. It's mind bogglingly big out there! :)

[@dblockbass]

yea when we start talking about distances and sizes of hundreds of light years, we say these words, but in reality we can not truly comprehend them.

[@MuvoTX]

17 km per second, and it needed gravity assist from some of the planets.

[@0101-s7v]

Everything is relative. Light speed is fast, but it's also painfully slow.

[@marcosargen3729]

The Voyager missions not only have more than paid for themselves thru discoveries, but proved to ourselves just how good the technology of that time was and what we are capable of.

[@robertthomason8905]

Vger 🖖

[@perhapsasongortwo4812]

*were capable of

[@Daniel-jk7pe]

@@perhapsasongortwo4812 🤓

[@richard999]

@@marcosargen3729 the key difference is that we used nuclear thermal power not solar panels. We now are so afraid of using anything that has the word nuclear that we build stupid mega-solar arrays for long range missions.

[@Buttmunchenhiemer]

Cool! Needing funding much? #Elon

[@J-CBertrand-tp6bg]

In September 1977, I was 20 years old and remember this launch and the launch of his brother, Voyager II, with great excitement. Voyager and his twin have been travelling my entire adult life. Now at 67, it always brings me comfort knowing they function still and are continuing to fulfill the measure of their creation, continuing to give us new discoveries❤️.

[@razercp9322]

@@J-CBertrand-tp6bg I wonder what kind of spacecrafts I’ll see when I’m 17

[@robertm1672]

@J-CBertrand-tp6bg In 77 I was 7 and remember it too. Its been traveling almost my entire life. And if I'm lucky, I'll get to see us reach not only the moon again, but mars!

[@gilsonfelix3415]

Limitless for dreamers like me, thank you so much for not dying before watching this. I was just 15 when it was launched, I remember it with joy as if it were today. Good times seem to come back sometimes. I cry with emotion. 😭

[@casard5235]

Congratulations Voyager 1🎉Stay in touch.

[@o0GzxS41BIbyux3vEoNehl5FH]

Despite this, it's a very lonely mission.

[@ratatosk001]

Voyager probes were launched the same year I was born. I have to admit, I feel strongly about their ongoing missions and hope they will survive much much longer. Every time I hear about either of them having any issues it worries me, but it seems they are both very sturdy and resilient pieces of engineering. Unlike my laptop.

[@X9523-z3v]

@@ratatosk001 No planned obsolescence on the rovers

[@user-adoyle123]

Congratulations NASA. Hi from Ireland ❤

[@Mr.Cockney]

I am amazed of how a device designed and manufactured in the “Prehistory” of engineering, electronics and computing is still functioning and accomplishing its mission and more!

[@hoosierdaddy8002]

They don`t make them like they use to like refrigerators .

[@afterthesmash]

Google AI: BM developed ECL in the late 1950s for use in the IBM 7030 Stretch computer. Motorola introduced the first ECL logic family in integrated circuits in 1962. Scientists first grew a single crystal of GaAs and used it to build photocells in 1955. The planar process was invented in 1959 by Jean A. Hoerni at Fairchild Semiconductor. The CMOS process was invented in 1963 by Frank Wanlass and C. T. Sah of Fairchild Semiconductor. Wanlass patented the idea in 1967. Outside of photonics, while GaN transistors were demonstrated in 1993, it was around 2004 that that the first GaN HEMT transistors became commercially available. Me: Five fundamental fabrication advances, and four of those belong to what you describe as "prehistory". What we've mainly done since 1977 is standardized on planar process fabrication of CMOS transistors and ground on scale harder than ever before in human history, to where they are now unfathomably small, fast, dense and power efficient. What does scale fundamentally buy you? Since the 1990s, it buys you the ability to write shitty software 10x faster, because squandering transistors is cheaper than training the clueless to write tight code; and, more recently, the possibility of achieving generative AI. Wikipedia: The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers, and it pioneered many aspects of modern computing. It features a GUI, a mouse, Ethernet networking, and the ability to run multiple applications simultaneously. It is one of the first computers to use a WYSIWYG text editor and has a bit-mapped display. The Alto did not succeed commercially, but it had a significant influence on the development of future computer systems. The Alto was designed for an operating system based on a GUI, later using the desktop metaphor. The first machines were introduced in March 1973 and were in limited production starting one decade before Xerox's designs inspired Apple to release the first mass-market GUI computers. Me: With enough work, you could already build computers comparable in speed to what came far later, but they occupied a very large box, consumed thousands of watts, and cost $134,000 each in 2023 USD. I actually sat in front of one these, or perhaps the Dorado, for an hour in the early 1980s. The Xerox "Dorado" 1132 Lisp machine was actually made with ECL in 1977, with 530 MB/s I/O bandwidth. All it took was damn fine engineers and a _lot_ of money.

[@Moonstorms]

I feel privileged to be alive when they launched both of these machines and I cherish the picture of a pale blue dot that was taken February 14, 1990 that voyager one took when it turned its camera around behind it. Check it out if you haven’t ever seen it, makes you wonder why are we fighting for?..😢

[@14caz68]

I too say the same 😢

[@roybatty2030]

So true, and why our egos are so big

[@murg27]

Human's Ego/arrogance/greed - primary reasons for "why are we fighting for"

[@solandri69]

Have you seen the Cassini picture of Saturn backlit? There's a blue pixel just outside Saturn's rings. That's Earth. (Mars and Venus also show up in it.)

[@stefanbrill4165]

I saw the moon landings on TV when I was a kid and I followed all the later achievements from there to JWST. What a privilege to be alive during these times. When I look at the world now, I really feel that we may have already passed peak humanity. Let's see what happens tomorrow, that may be an indicator. Now, I still have a few years ahead of me (I hope) and I would love to see further progress, but I doubt that we are still capable of it. Stupidity, laziness and hatred have raised their ugly heads again.

[@slayofficial1136]

Congratulations NASA ❤ from India 🇮🇳

[@kaarlimakela3413]

I love them. Old tech held up better than newer stuff would have. I'm 70. I love it.

[@alison4316]

I love your comment, too lol ❤

[@GrantBroom]

I love your old stuff better than your new stuff ( regurgitator)😅

[@craigstephens93]

I read your comment as a metaphor for the difference in the older and younger generations of people today.

[@41divad]

Not likely

[@moxdox]

To me this is more about the strategy to employ redundancy in your systems to ensure the process is executed in various situations. This is less about old tech vs new tech.🎉

[@saganandroid4175]

Why do I get so emotional over the two Voyagers?

[@UncleBuZ]

@@saganandroid4175 It's natural to feel emotional about Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 because they symbolize humanity's quest for knowledge and exploration. These spacecraft represent our curiosity about the universe and our perseverance over decades. They evoke reflections on our place in the cosmos, the passage of time, and the legacy we leave behind. So, feeling that way is completely understandable!

[@j.r.r.toking]

@@UncleBuZ Well said

[@recordsam]

We also have a deep, inborn longing for eternity, God, home, whatever it is - so sending something so precious and personal - remember the recordings of all manner of life and music, the images, etc., the representation of humanity - so far away, where it can never be reuinited with us, but will go on traveling away from us "forever" - that just touches my heart like few things can.

[@gavincurtis]

Did you know one of them comes back looking for its creator and Kirk saves us all?

[@dustyruffie4735]

Same. I honestly get a sense of loss and melancholy talking about how soon they're going to be quite and their solidarity in the great unknown. I'm actually going to be sad and miss them.

[@iAPX432]

At that time, NASA engineering was the best of the bests. Voyagers are pure gems!

[@karenlebeter4196]

Congratulations!! Marvelous! I was 26 when it launched. This is such a thrill!

[@davidsipos302]

Amazing! Voyager Spacecraft along with Apollo Missions. Both Designed, Produced, Engineered and Executed by Americans. Both are Crowning Achievements of Past American Greatness!

[@antonnym214]

Very good design on not only the hardware, but the project and trajectory overall. Also, I fully appreciate Voyager 2, also, because it was the only probe to visit Uranus.

[@fisterB]

And the only one to visit Neptune. Voyager 2 is a far greater hero. Voyager 2 lost its main receiver and damaged its backup receiver within the first week. Yet it did everything above and beyond and it too, is still going like a chad.

[@intheshell35ify]

Probing Uranus was most stimulating.

[@NewHope101Foundation]

This is one of the best machines ever built

[@nobonespurs]

that is amazing, transistors that had no alpha damage- the NPN junctions still worked!

[@intheshell35ify]

Wonder how many Texas Instruments IC chips got woke up out of a 40 year slumber.

[@nobonespurs]

spacecraft contained 71,017 ICs, plus 267,215 other electronic parts. The spacecraft also contained RCA CMOS ICs,

[@intheshell35ify]

@@nobonespurs wow that's a bunch of PN junctions. Best part of firing up an old solid state beast is the smell. But no smell in space so I have to use my imagination. 😁

[@drew8256]

Great video, amazing technology for such old systems. Real geniuses worked on Voyager. Glad Boeing was not the contractor.

[@untermench3502]

Voyager 1 was designed primarily with slide rules. Scientists were just getting to use computers for design. I remember taking a math class during that period and we were forbidden to use calculators, but slide rules were OK.

[@dkindig]

I used to have a really nice Pickett with a hard-shell case back in the day...

[@untermench3502]

@@dkindig I had one of the cheap plastic ones. The fancy ones looked like the used Bamboo or something similar. It must have been the friction qualities of the wood.

[@bjorndebakker]

Great work @NASA

[@douglasstrother6584]

As of 1 Nov 2024, Voyager 1 is 166 AU from Earth and Voyager 2 is 138 AU away.

[@george1la]

Incredible. What quality they did. This has lasted longer than anyone thought. The information is beyone value. This information is not theoretical.

[@prkmetalworks2792]

I remember the launch. All I can say is high fives for the engineers that designed that and the techs that built it. Remember the technology we had back then.

[@NielsMadsen-n7p]

Beyond our solar system and beyond belief. Very impressive.!

[@bruceyoung1343]

KUDOS to the designers of Voyager 1.

[@AMERICANPATRIOT1945]

This transmitter and indeed the entire Voyager spacecraft and other NASA missions of this era are proof of the quality and the quantity of US made products of the era. The USA can and should take back and expand its manufacturing base and bring wholesale consumer manufacturing back home. It is domestic consumer manufacturing which creates the volume and technology of productive capacity stateside necessary to produce quality hardware such as the Voyager spacecraft at somewhat affordable prices. The parts used in Voyager's electronics and mechanics were all US made with very few exceptions. Without large domestic consumer manufacturing, the parts needed become foreign sourced or custom made at huge cost. Even the production capacity to make these parts becomes a custom item rather than readily available at local specialty factories unless there is domestic consumer manufacturing to support those specialty factories.

[@RobertJohnson-lb3qz]

I believe that it’s beginning…

[@robinhodgkinson]

Transmitters aye. Us old guys can remember them. Who’s with me?

[@paulneale988]

I'm 66yrs old and I'm with you, Robin

[@stephfran9761]

I believe the name is Vyger.

[@Captainumerica]

Maybe one day... 🖖

[@jlp7184]

Exactly. These satellites are going to "meet" something

[@terryoquinn8199]

This is absolutely amazing ! First , that it’s still doing its thing and second , that it’s still doing its thing ! We haven’t even begun to discover what is going on around us , in space , under the ocean and even underground .” The little Voyager that could “. That’s so cool !

[@nunyabeeswax9463]

I was about to graduate high school in Baton Rouge when it launched. My father was excited about the mission. My father, a high school drop out, WW2 veteran ended up working on the Apollo , Gemini and space shuttle missions. If you gave him a book, he learned that book. My high school drop out father retired from LSU in the mid 90's. Why did it take so long for the backup to do it's job? I'm sure the fault protection played a huge role. But seriously why so long?

[@mcarp555]

What do you mean by "so long"? A few days to reset the receiving dishes? How long do you think it should have taken?

[@nunyabeeswax9463]

@@mcarp555 The video said 40 years.

[@mcarp555]

@@nunyabeeswax9463 The title is clickbait. Except for a few times it experienced technical issues, Voyager 1 has been in daily touch with Earth since it launched. But the backup transmitter itself was last used in 1981.

[@For_What_It-s_Worth]

Why did it take the backup so long to do its job? Because its job was to take over if/when the primary could no longer do its job. But the primary just kept going, and going, and going…! Until now. So now fault protection has asked the backup to do its job, and it has answered, “YES!”

[@markrix]

The fact that they made a sci-fi movie about this thing (star trec) and almost all the actors have passed, but it's still working, is amazing..

[@bigpauliep6992]

Dude, that statement really isn't as deep as you believe it to be.

[@bigpauliep6992]

And it's "Trek" by the way.

[@ObservaDome]

@@bigpauliep6992 📡"Dude", your Comments Really Aren't As Deep As you Believe Them To Be.📡

[@bigpauliep6992]

@@ObservaDome I'm guessing the echo was caused by the space between your ears.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

Star Dreck you mean.

[@SuDeep_M9999]

🎉🎉👍🏼👍🏽👍🏿‼️ From India, Earth - the 3rd Rock from our Sun!

[@marktwain368]

It is beyond incredible that humans made this humble spacecraft which continues to explore deep space and report data. A monumental scientific achievement.

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

Who would have guessed it had a backup transmitter ! I didnt ! Great nasa did that !

[@murg27]

You had some of the brightest and brilliant minds at Nasa in those days - who had less distractions in life than the ones today.

[@solandri69]

Looking through the design specs, each radio (S- and X-band) has two exciters (for transmitting), and two amplifiers. So there's actually the equivalent of 4 radios aboard. There are only two receivers. Voyager 2's primary receiver failed before its Jupiter encounter. It switched to its backup receiver, but the backup wasn't working properly either (component to compensate for Doppler shift was broken). So for 47+ years they've had to pre-calculate the Doppler shift, and adjust the transmission frequency so the signal arrives at Voyager 2 at a specific frequency. That frequency varies with spacecraft temperature. So they also need to take into account which equipment is currently active (which changes temp) to be able to send it commands. it's a real hack job.

[@HighPeakMultimedia]

I really enjoyed this. Thank you.

[@donaldboyer8182]

Maybe we should design a space craft specifically for an interstellar voyage. What Voyager 1 did was amazing. Imagine what a craft designed for such a mission would accomplish.

[@deniseelles4545]

This is amazing!! Great news!🌝🌌

[@mike83ny]

“HAL, please turn on the heater. “ “I am now shutting down the primary communication system, as ordered.” “No, HAL, I want you to turn on the heater. “Yes, I have shut down the primary communications system. Switching to secondary systems.”

[@14caz68]

He’s changed ‘sender’ and modernised himself .

[@hektor6766]

"That'll teach you to mess with me, Dave."

[@sergpie]

Something tells me that if we were to build and launch a similar probe today with today’s “rigor”, it would not only not have made it as far, but would likely be mission-abandoned because of a sudden moral quandary in the USA of the ethical implications of space exploration and colonization.

[@chriskeating483]

😂😂

[@Timothyshannon-fz4jx]

Voyager 1, built from 70's technology has gone far beyond anything that could be expected and is arguably the best piece of space hardware ever built, NASA's most successful mission and a tribute to all those, many know past on, who worked on its development.

[@duncanmckenzie2815]

Thank you for your video. I have always been fascinated with the Voyager probes and radio communications. For a long time I have been trying to find the schematic diagram of the radio receivers used on the Voyager probes. There is information out there available showing the BLOCK diagram of the Voyager radio communications equipment, but not the actual SCHEMATIC diagram with the individual components used in the radio transmitters / receivers onboard. I would be most grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction as to where the schematic diagrams for the Voyager probes may be available, if they still exist. With best regards to all.

[@michael_camdog1765]

By 5 September 1977, I was 23 yrs. old and three weeks and four days from leaving the US for my 1rst Med Cruise on an Adams class guided missile destroyer. It's really neat that Voyager is still operational and travelling beyond the outer reaches of our solar system. I hope it is still operating when SpaceX & NASA complete the 1rat successful landings on the moon and Mars.

[@mcnairdn]

Launched before I could even sit up. Pale blue dot photo, my freshman HS, and she continues on. Congratulations

[@deveyous6614]

Would be fascinating to see what the conditions of space are that far out!

[@7_of_9]

Imagine launching a fleet of spaceships over different periods, each one destined to act as a cosmic relay, amplifying signals across unimaginable distances back to Earth. Over time, these ships would form a network reaching far beyond our galaxy-assuming we don’t wipe ourselves out before we even get to receive those signals. If humanity endures, those distant transmissions could someday lead us to new frontiers. After all, Voyager stands as a testament to our capacity for technological marvels and audacious dreams.

[@brianmcguinness9642]

People keep saying that Voyager 1 has left the solar system. It has left the innermost core of the solar system, where the planets are, but it will take thousands of years before it reaches the edge of the Oort cloud and leaves the solar system completely.

[@mojoneko8303]

Is the main transmitter back on line now? Or is it still dependent on the back up transmitter?

[@johnnycab1000]

Good point @WatchtowerHunter. Impressive indeed. My particular take on this is; The spacecraft were designed well and the equipment on board was made of the Highest quality componentry, even for its day compared to what we have access to nowadays. That said, I get the very distinct impression we would struggle to to build craft as good as the voyager series owing to the level of cost cutting, crap design and rubbish component quality. Such a shame we as a species have fallen so far of the standard our predecessors set with the the Voyager series. Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants then pissing it up against the wall eh?

[@macklyn]

Truly amazing! NASA rocks!!

[@stewarth99]

Yet your AI reader cannot cope with punctuation.

[@Martian_Alien]

I hope that NASA and other space agencies of other countries can use and adapt the best ideas, materials, etc from the Apollo missions to achieve similar and greater results. On a side issue. I assume that Fortran.is not being used anymore and has been replaced with a better language? If not, I can't believe that a computer language we studied & used 50 years ago is still the best we have to offer on modern satellites?

[@georgejones8784]

So why was it on the backup transmitter? Were they able to troubleshoot & reactivate the primary transmitter?

[@stefan_becker]

I guess that this is because a heater was switched on, which used a lot of power. This could have caused the voltage of the increasingly weak battery to drop and ultimately triggered the system to switch to a safety mode.

[@quasimod]

Short answer: They don't know yet. Find out more at blogs DOT nasa DOT gov SLASH voyager.

[@ZoneProfessionalGardening]

Sometimes, it's not the most modern tech that lasts, but components that are tough and will last the time. This is lasting tech from the 1960s.

[@Charonupthekuiper]

For Voyager 1 the extended mission continues to provide valuable unique data with both Jupiter and Saturn studied in much more detail by later missions. Voyager 2 is the only craft to fly past Uranus and Neptune and it too has reached heliopause giving yet more data not obtained by other craft. New Horizons is on its way out of the solar system but is travelling slower than Voyager 1.

[@RussTillling]

Thanks. So did they get the x band transmitter working again? When will V1 reach the Oort Cloud and will it still be working?

[@mcarp555]

It will take hundreds of years to reach the Oort cloud. It's doubtful Voyager 1 will survive another ten years.

[@michaelprince886]

Why doesn't the JWST snap a photo of Voyager 1 ? This would satisfy a lot of curious people ✌️💚😃

[@Slowphoton]

An infrared “photo” assuming that JWST can detect the faint heat signal from Voyager. I am not sure if this is possible.

[@Debbie-henri]

Yes, that would be great to see.

[@chrislambert6819]

As a former telescope designer of some of the largest telescopes ever built, I can safely say that this is physically impossible. JWST has nowhere near the resolving ability to image something that small, that far away. Even if it theoretically could resolve it optically, I would not be surprised if the "image" of Voyager would be smaller than a single proton JWST's imager. (Though I didn't run the numbers)

[@Slowphoton]

@@chrislambert6819 a single “photon”, since this is mostly an infrared light instrument. But still way outside the boundaries of the instrument’s capabilities. A nice idea though, in the tradition of the pale blue dot image.

[@CycloneCyd]

I have a question. I notice you never respond to comments but maybe you could address this in another video. How much longer can we expect V1 to continue 'working'? The must surely come a time when it's power supply becomes exhausted. When is that likely to be? I dare say the standard answer is that we have already passed that point,but I imagine Engineers and Scientists must have been working out how much more we might get from Voyager 1.

[@kenmore01]

I'm kinda surprised that the old capacitors and TTL chips survived this long. Guess it does pay to use good quality parts.

[@MaddogMike-444]

I'm watching this video 23 hours after it went up. 😊

[@Sandra-dt4ec]

I like the idea that the entire radio signal and its data exist only in space for a time.

[@jeanettemarkley7299]

It's been out there since I was a young kid. I have Sagan's Pale Blue Dot quot on my wall.

[@rayclark7963]

Time to sign up for Triple A road service ( :

[@turkfiles]

I was working for a division of Xerox in Pasadena, California at the time Voyager did its fly by of Saturn. Our division president was invited to JPL where the images were coming in. He was able to see them first hand. He came back with a bunch of photos of Saturn‘s rings, etc. for everyone. I have them stored away somewhere but I’m not sure where they’re at. Hope to find them someday.

[@sabastian4858]

You're a fool incapable of seeing the truth. Deceived much?

[@richarddoig1865]

Also, the amount of technology, and computing power in these probes is really minimal. I don’t know how true it is, but I read just a few days ago that the amount of computer output is similar than a modern remote control. Smaller memory than the thumbnail of a phone image, 70 kilobytes( just googled it, not really any computer). That is amazing.

[@ronwade2206]

My Uncle worked at Motorola GED in Scottsdale and designed and built that communication package. By Voyager 2 he was a project manager. It will work long after you and I are dead.

[@greatsilentwatcher]

What information is being transmitted?

[@93_LXcpe]

I'd like to know what if any damage has been done by micometeorites.

[@larryfine6865]

can the backup transmitter turn back on the main transmitter? Ty for this video.

[@tristanpatterson3843]

You could say "Nearly 50 years!" Now.

[@ionelum]

@@tristanpatterson3843 you do understand, it is AI you are talking with?

[@modguy9894]

How long did it take for the signal to reach Earth?

[@gordonslippy1073]

Best engineering ever.

[@LegIIAVGCA]

Veeger will be back in Star Trek XXI…. VEEGER REVENGE!

[@tunedsignal]

Amazing to tune a signal from so far....

[@josephososkie3029]

They could have ended this story with “ yep, they built them good back in the day”. High, authentic praise. Instead, they went on and on and on. One would question why.

[@RichardL.C.]

Thanks!

[@Olleetheowl]

Just think what a “Voyager 3” would be capable of …. What signals and data is it actually sending?

[@w9gb]

Hello S-band (2.3 GHz) … not far (frequency) from your 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi and your kitchen microwave !! The S-band transmitter uses a Traveling-Wave Tube (TWT) with ERP ~20 watts. NASA (and JPL) S-band radio data/voice usage was outlined in mid-1960s for Apollo program !!

[@42pirhanas]

Everyone should know where their emergency backup transmitter is.

[@montedyoung3247]

Was it a collect call?

[@matthewsermons7247]

So, when are we going to send multiple satellites radiating out to act as relays for our DEEP SPACE NETWORK?

[@Lucky9_9]

@@matthewsermons7247 that would require people to care about people who haven't been born yet. The reality is "we" will never have those. The time it takes to set them up is decades. People don't even care about climate change, and that is radically altering our climate to the point where we no longer have the climate that we did 30 years ago- the climate that has been stable for this entire interglacial period is gone. We have officially changed climates at this point. And if people don't care about that, why would they care about interplanetary networks?

[@matthewsermons7247]

@@Lucky9_9 I feel that cynicism deep in my heart, but look on the bright side, when Deep Horizon was launched for Pluto, it was still a "planet". You've lost/broken cell phones with better cameras than some probes that are just now becoming operational. It's not Global Warming, it's Terraforming, we just need to teach these fellow apes how the thermostat works. Great reply, I feel ya, Honestly! Welcome to the Anthropocene Era, where you know your home when radioactive dating doesn't make sense and there is so much microplastic, the era is sponsored by Mattel.

[@ObservaDome]

​@@Lucky9_9📡The Sun IS The Main Influencer Of your so-called "climate change". The Climate IS Always Changing By The Forces Of Nature. "Man" Is NOT "radically altering our climate". "Man Has A Minimal Influence On What Happens To "our climate". Please Step Back From your Egocentric View & Try To Think Logically, Not Emotionally. Thank You.📡

[@shturmovik3033]

…pretty cool….and it was a major Star Trek Villain!

[@caspermotsi6688]

Carl Sagan's persuaded NASA to make one of the most consequential pictures of the voyager mission ( the pear; blue dot), if only NASA could turn one of the cameras ON before power runs out and make another picture of where the space craft is

[@user-tk5fi1my5i]

So if I understood correctly, voyager 1 used it's backup transmitter which hadn't been used in 40 years to reestablish contact with earth. But in those 40 years voyager 1 had been in contact with earth using its main transmitter. The title of this video makes it sound like voyager 1 had zero contact with earth for 40 years, and not until it's backup transmitter was activated was it able to communicate with earth. So the title of this video is definitely misleading.

[@ObservaDome]

📡"@user-tk5fi1my5i" your Comment About This Video "is definitely misleading".📡

[@mcarp555]

It's called 'clickbait'.

[@user-tk5fi1my5i]

@mcarp555 I know what it's called, and that sort of crap pisses me off. It actually makes me lose some respect for channels that do that sort of thing, and it makes it less likely that i'll watch more of their videos in the future.

[@platinaatje6134]

60ties and 70ties tech unbelievable more reliable and bulletproof than the rubbish of today.

[@fuffoon]

We should get out there and replace its batteries. C'mon. Must I think of everything? 😊

[@s1vrbck_fitness]

The g-ring has been eluding man for centuries.

[@marcusbaghdassarian7157]

Is just WOW 🎉❤🎉

[@ryanhs_js]

Question from me.. how can Voyager connected to the Earth ? It was so far away from us, so many billion km from us and no signal.. How about the power system ?

[@aussiecaptsarcasm9100]

We are all in awe of Voyager 1's achievements but what about Voyager 2. I can find little information about it.

[@markwood3389]

3:55 These labels must be wrong. It seems you’ve got the letters mixed up. And you’ve got one of the rings labeled “Earth” and “G ring”.

[@9avedon]

Moody Blues album "Long Distance Voyager" Amazing their trying to tell us something........

[@bradhoehne8369]

I hate to "Actually" the NASAspacenews channel, but Voyager 1 didn't fly by Uranus and Neptune, as this video implies. Voyager >2< did.

[@gordonslippy1073]

But what will be the fix for this latest bug?

[@aurorablusky]

Why are news sources, including this video saying 'phone home after decades of silence' when it was a couple weeks, transition from x-band to S-band radio?

[@Lit_Hot_takes]

Is it possible to track into interstellar space where Voyager 1 is?

[@Thom4ES]

They know eggactly where it is ,and where it's going.....the major problems is it so far away ,tiny and one round trip is 10 or12 hours. Just to say hi....

[@mcarp555]

@@Thom4ES "10 or 12 hours"? Light takes about 23 hours to reach from the Sun to Voyager 1. So a round trip would take about 46 hours.

[@sblal0807]

I cant wait til Voyager 6 returns to Earth.

[@view1st]

So... what exactly has it discovered that we didn't know before? As it's travelling through interstellar space I presume that there's nothing much for it to study and therefore not much in the way of interesting data being sent (at least not what a casual observer would find interesting).

[@ccaeser]

Please use one system of units in your channel. You cannot mix miles, feet, inches, Fahrenheit with meters, Kelvin, volts and watts.

[@14caz68]

Why not ? Makes it all inclusive.

[@professor-viewsalot]

This channel has many faults and errors but Maybe he can? I most certainly can and I certainly do often as and when required and even in the same measurement like "4 foot +/- 2 mm" or "1 m & +/- 6 inches" other people may not approve but thats their lack of education, not my problem. However I do agree that in conventional designs and modern day constructions when dealing with other people, the units should all be in SI but almost every American & many others will object and stick (argueably wrongly) to their imperial units. I doubt theres a single day passed in my >70 yrs that I have'nt willingly and competently used BOTH SI and imperial units for something.

[@professor-viewsalot]

Maybe he is a DIVERSITY freek?

[@14caz68]

@ Tbh I assumed everyone mixed and matched measurements ! Maybe it IS an age ‘thing’. ( I’m the wrong side of 65) !

[@d.e.7467]

Medications are measured in milliliters. Gas is measured in gallons. Soda is measured in both ounces and liters.

[@WalrusOpossum]

I wonder how many of the engineers who worked on them are still around.