Voyager at 40: Keep Reaching for the Stars

In the late summer of 1977, NASA launched the twin Voyager spacecraft. These remote ambassadors still beam messages back to Earth 40 years later, with data from their deep space travels. Voyager 1 is about 13 billion miles from Earth in interstellar space, and Voyager 2 is not far behind. For more about the Voyager mission, visit www.jpl.nasa.g... .

[@harryandruschak2843]

I worked at JPL 1974-1986, at SFOF. Best years of my life. I am so proud of our two VOYAGERS.

[@SSArt98]

Thanks for helping Harry, I bet it was an *awesome* job!

[@edwardkristel17]

I hope I can work here one day!

[@Soyong1]

Voyager is like family to all tbh

[@LeeSeungrhee]

I am going to study Astronautics, I hope in near future I can join NASA and keep working there doing such amazing things as work with Voyagers

[@MonteiroM]

Thank you for your work.

[@crinoid1919]

I was 7 years old and clearly remember this. Dr Sagan has been, and will be, a life long hero of mine. He now sits with the pantheon of Plato, Aristotle, Kepler, and Copernicus. We miss you Carl

[@nicholashylton6857]

Always and forever! Sagan was _the poet_ of science.

[@briellearcadia8192]

please tell me if voyagers were mr carl sagan's ideas or what bc i cant search it

[@lemaro1977]

Voyager 2 passing by neptune in 1989 marked my childhood. Very well done spacecraft, congratulations to all who worked on it!!!

[@nicholashylton6857]

During the Uranus and Neptune encounters, my local cable TV service set up a special channel so viewers could watch the daily NASA news conferences and image data returning in real time. To the person(s) in the cable company who decided to do it, *_I thank you!!_*

[@lemaro1977]

luck of you... we didn´t have that here in Brazil. At that time, I had to watch every news and read every newspaper about voyager 2...

[@Tramseskumbanan]

When Voyager 1 passed by Jupiter in 1979, it marked the birth of my interest in astronomy and space technology.

[@mr.n0ne]

this program was ahead of its times. humanity will forever remember Voyagers.

[@djsmileyoflasvegas]

I remember when my pops worked at jpl in pasadena i loved when he took me to work and showed me pics from voyagers and viking missions he was a data operator and i loved using the computers back in the days bbs sierra games they were bored there too

[@nicholashylton6857]

I am _SOOOOO_ jealous!!!

[@lemaro1977]

heheh me too...

[@badfreddytube]

Imagine what a Voyager 3 could do with todays tech.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Hopefully mid 22nd century descendants will take the plunge and launch another Grand Tour in the year 2152 - when the planets will again be in the proper alignment. Or maybe they'll just hop into their Alcubierre Drive SUV's and take the kids camping on *Titan* or *Trappist-1 f.* :)

[@alexsiemers7898]

Nicholas Hylton Were still probably centuries away from stable FTL travel

[@christianbitar4216]

Needle Factory If murica didn't spend 300 billion ob the military and more on space exploration, then.. just then..

[@LavenderSunrise]

>New Horizons

[@agoodchannelname2166]

I hope the government is then run by people with sense, and hunger for knowledge and not just money and power... NASA is already facing problems arising from insufficient funds. I hope the world focuses more on discovery than destruction.

[@SSArt98]

I was 10 years old and remember these days, as I do Elvis's death! _I can't believe 40 years has gone by!!!_ *_Thanks JPL, NASA, Goddard & all!_* ~ Next BIG date: 9/15/2017! _Cassini's _*_Grand Finale_*_ into Saturn._ :(

[@SSArt98]

P.S. I forgot about the *_The James Webb_* telescope launch next year! (2018) *This WILL change our look into deeper Space and I believe, near Earth Space!* Sad to think what will happen to *_Hubble_* . (Wish we could do one more mission to Hubble to keep it going another 20 years)

[@SSArt98]

I did and thanks for the help! *:)*

[@christophschmeler2744]

@@SSArt98 James Webb still wasn't launched...

[@ximalas]

Being born the year after the launches, the Voyager's have been part of my life, at least since the age when I started to care about science. It's nice to see them going on and still being operational.

[@nicholashylton6857]

Well spoken!

[@willrun4fun]

Amazing. These guys have been journeying through space all most as long as I have been alive.

[@astrovens]

I love the voyager probes especially the first one.

[@NeonsStyleHD]

The day the first images came back, and were shown on TV changed my life. It inspired a love and passion for science that has only gotten stronger over the decades since. Congratulations to the entire team of both Voyagers, it is and always will be a monumental achievement. The first ship to ever leave for the stars! Thank you. :)

[@verioffkin]

Real proud of humanity these two guys are.

[@iamdmc]

This is what the future will look back on and remember. This is the kind of work worth doing, and people who's names are worth remembering. Thank you

[@Tech-qy3yy]

I have not been here on earth a long time only about 13 years but I can't imagine what it was like in the good old days of space exploration. I one day hope to be an Astrophysicist.

[@nicazer]

Go for your dream. My motto is "If you love to do it, it isn't work." and know it will be difficult to get to it, but it is very possible.

[@charliegaudino]

Absolutely​ amazing and wonderful. But... What's with the dislike? I mean really....

[@charleshowardofficial650]

Both dislikes are from moon truthers.

[@DontEverGrowUp]

You mean liars.

[@sukhwantsingh1156]

Charles Howard Official. M E M E B I G B O Y

[@gthetruth7502]

charlie gaudino, greeting wake up my brother you really think man has gone to space let me help you out from you been a child they have lie to you, you're stuck in this Matrix and love this reality well the majority of Us don't that's why you're asking the question why there so much dislike because we know (the Earth is flat) check out a brother called D. marble also check out another brother( you been exposed )and brother Sanchez flat earth all 3 brother are on KZbin, stop watching tell lie Vision. Enough said

[@Tayhan9]

G the Truth .....not sure if troll or yet another flat earth-er loon

[@benmarchessault7289]

Absolutely inspiring

[@shavono8402]

that is absolutley 100% completely undoubtedly ridiculously mind-blowing how do they do it? much respect, nasa. wow.

[@nicholashylton6857]

They do it with some of the best scientists and engineers on our Pale Blue Dot. I was a toddler when these missions were launched. It blows me away too!

[@cjay2]

And antennas near Madrid Spain, and in the US in CA.

[@Puzzoozoo]

When I'm long dead the Voyagers and the Pioneers will still be going like the clappers heading for the stars. I just wish I was a passenger on one of them.

[@alexsiemers7898]

On the New Horizons mission (the one that went to Pluto, and is also leaving the solar system) has the ashes of Clyde Tombaugh (the man who discovered the planet) on board!

Oooh, nice smooth 60FPS! Im surprised no one complimented it.

[@aerialfocused8117]

A 20 watt transmitter?! That's a little more powerful than our FPV race drone transmitters, but still not much power. Those Deep Space Network antennas are amazing! Any idea what frequency they're on?

[@ximalas]

X Band and S Band. S Band usage is currently switched off.

[@Aziz-qt6iy]

70 meter of DSN antennas can be reach tens billions km, that was I know

[@JButttertv]

The land of make believe hertz…..

[@ahmaddijla3347]

Keep going my dear ... tkanks NASA , JPL

[@ashwingupta9347]

Long live Voyagers...

[@rexlexbros]

Great News & Long live both Voyager

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

I can only wonder how many other societies on other worlds orbiting other stars have also fired their own pieces of their civilizations to slowly fall into the galactic center. The likelihood of our culture ever contacting theirs in my lifetime is so close to zero the actual number isn't worth knowing, but I hope that future generations will be able to look back on these days of planetary loneliness with the same wistful nostalgia that we view the Renaissance.

[@pglpland]

Merci ,JPL .

[@RosaAksentowicz014]

Unglaublich!!! Und so wunderschön - das ist wie Echo von Voyager über 40 Jahre lang - Dankeschön für erstaunliches Video! 🙏👍👏

[@nicazer]

Happy birthday to the Voyager twins!

[@GroomLeader]

I was 20 when they were launched, and I am still enthralled by the mission, such deep space, and so much to discover.

[@shahrukhagha9319]

These men as well as those voyagers has done great work.

[@briellearcadia8192]

"dark room is the center of the universe. this is where we communicate with the deepest space crafts we have." this is very cool to hear 💘💘

[@mustang607]

Who knew that this would inspire the first Star Trek movie.

[@victorarnault]

I pass my childhood seeing Voyager's documentaries on Tv.

[@sadaque7490]

Thanks for subtitles your videos.

[@briellearcadia8192]

I just watched this again because i forgot what the room is called to communicate with voyagers. but when the voyager scientist said, "hope we can reach interstellar space". and we already did. im crying

[@BunnyRaptor]

My favorite two spacecraft.

[@rodrigovalenzuela9962]

We will really miss you Voyager 1 and 2!

[@jowen2107]

its amazing we can control a small craft 13 billion miles away, with a 40 year old remote control, the same kind we use to switch television channels.Incredible

[@hothothotmale]

Are there any plans to send relay satellites after Voyager 1 and/or Voyager 2 to relay their signals from further out? .

[@nicholashylton6857]

Such project would be challenging in of itself. But no. The RTG's which power each Voyager will not have enough power to keep the science instruments working by 2025 or so. Eventually, they will fall silent. But after 40+ years of exploration, they have earned the rest.

[@otisbowman5643]

Ed Stone, you and I got OLD together!!!

[@guptaakankshagupta89]

I'm proud.. With all such advancements... This is totally a different dimension of perception.. When nations are fighting for pity things.. We should see it like..we are nothing n all this is nothing but a spec in the universe.. This broaden the mind set...

[@Lohonggongwondayopeyur]

Thank you Voyager 😊😊😊

[@choobacca]

Thank you

[@panamawave]

Happy 40th birthday, Voyager 2!

[@kevinvaldez2509]

This is so lit

[@pipercub123456]

Back when America could do great things....

[@The_sound_Of_Thunder]

Not sure where you have been but we just visited Pluto, landed a car on Mars, Hubble gave us unimaginable images, and thats just the few of the biggies.

[@1Animeculture]

Hubble was international feat.

[@nicholashylton6857]

In space exploration, America is still tops. For how long, I don't know. There are a lot of people who see money spent on these missions as a waste and would end them all in a heartbeat.

[@Tayhan9]

Nicholas Hylton right and what people don't understand is that space gives us the chance to conduct experiments with a much smaller amount of variables. We don't have to worry about gravity, we don't have to worry about magnetic fields (as much) we can do so much more in space than we can on the surface. id rather cut back some funding here and there on bs than ever cutback on the space budgets. Thank god for people like Elon and Beezos who want to continue this pursuit....for them to get home of course

[@Puzzoozoo]

Nicholas Hylton+ Their called social justice warriors and progressives.

[@Justin_Martin]

Voyager missions is awesome 🇺🇸👑💕

[@pionero77]

¡40 Años de la Misión Voyager! Felicitaciones a @nasa y @jpl por el prolongado éxito de esa Misión, más allá del espacio interestelar!!!

[@lucassilvapascoal3581]

40 year, 13 billion miles and it is the same as if we would travel during 19,87 hours with speed of light, actually we are extreme slow to an universe scale.

[@MattJohno2]

If voyager traveled at a mile per year, Voyager would've had to been around almost since the Universe existed. Think about that for a minute.

[@CodeLeeCarter]

Happy Birthday Voyager 2 and Voyager 1, you'll have to wait until next month :)

[@kolossalsquid1388]

Keep going. Bon voyage. God speed. Thank you for sharing. Thank you Nasa and JPL. And every one else involved.

[@Ingrid0410]

Thank you so much for this! So amazing and interesting!

[@andrzejgibas5658]

40lata dlugo VOYAGER 1&2 super RTG i antena działa gratuluję

[@wangson]

Absolutely fantastic.

[@abhinavraja691]

I think this is the man's best achievement.

[@samuelh.m4905]

If earth were to be destroyed either by mankind or by some type of asteroid, these would be the only artifacts of mankind that made it out into the vast darkness of space

[@lazarusboi6289]

indeed

[@alexsiemers7898]

Look up the video "Messages for the Future" by Vsauce

[@samuelh.m4905]

Alex Siemers I know a lot about this spacecraft lol It boggles my mind how this thing is just racing through space faster than anything man has ever created, and what's scary is it's all alone out there

[@orbit7082]

Our silent ambassadors

[@taramas5582]

That's it. The video made emotional. JPL has another one subscriber

[@shadow404atl]

Happy Misty eyes!

[@Rigel34085]

So awesome.

[@christophschmeler2744]

This video make me sentimental...

[@bkuls]

Does it remind anyone of the great Carl Sagan's words about our "Pale Blue Dot"?

[@taramas5582]

Yes!!!!

[@alexsiemers7898]

The photo that inspired that speech was taken by Voyager!

[@JohnJewel]

I work with srg who worked on the propulsion and navigation system.

[@zerobyte802]

I hope Voyager ends up in the Smithsonian - which would mean we'd developed interstellar travel technology.

[@copkhan007]

The Only reason Voyager 1 and 2 still work is because of the Analog circuits and equipment which are far more reliable then Digital equipment. Try sending a new deep space vehicle with high tech equipment and some hacker would manage to crash land it within few hours of launch.

[@geunii5418]

이걸 77년도에 만들어 우주로 보냈다니 미국은 정말 대단한 나라인건 인정...77년도면 한국은 흑백티비 볼때인데...

[@happyicare5053]

Amazing, JPL

[@russelupsumgrub2065]

The amount of data gathered and the amount of data revealed to the viewing public is in imbalance ! NASA , please make the vids longer with more info and detail . What is presented is super interesting and much appreciated , I only wish there was more on each presentation , thanks.

[@cjay2]

There are the NASA websites filled with publically-released data and info.

[@marcokolkman3871]

What about the Pioneer 10 and 11? They were launched even before the Voyagers in 1972 and 1973 and they are also still out there in the universe.

[@alexsiemers7898]

The pioneers went silent some time ago, while we're still talking to the Voyagers.

[@cygnus1129]

Would anybody know what that pleasant music is in the first half?

[@edwardkristel17]

I hope one day I can work here. Go voyager 1 and 2

[@debjitproduction4817]

For the first time some non - living thing made me cry 😥😥

[@CamLover]

The August 1977 (i was 5 month old baby) 😭 The September 1977 (i was 6 month old baby) 😢 I didn't know never for this two missions launch. I never heard it... So today 2022 Where they are now, given that the temperature there in the area in space, will be very low, the two voyagers could be have this moment so many ice at full body? And also, in how much time from today 2022 is it expected to fly next to a good gas star or not, or next to a nebula? Is there a case at some point to come into orbit with some Black Hole, and could lost forever? It does not matter if we live until then or not.

[@ylette]

More missions like this, please. So tired of LEO and rovers on Mars.

[@CovieHuman55]

Imagine in the distant future when we have the technology for faster-than-light travel as we send manned spacecrafts to rendezvous with both Voyager probes.

[@DerAdler82]

Dunno if we would ever manage to travel faster than light, btw currently both Voyagers can be overtaken in less than 20hrs in an hypothetical travel at the speed of light (~19hrs for V1 and ~16hrs for V2). It would be funny and at the same time amazing to reach those spacecrafts for a brief escort-travel, during which take pictures and look at them. Obviously I'm fantasizing!

[@MythCraft00]

40. YEARS.

[@franjojosip9800]

Does anyone hope Voyager survives 50 years still working?

[@18dot7]

Here! Saw them launched on TV when I was a young lad and always enjoyed "news from outer space" ;)

[@MonteiroM]

Amazing!

[@gogamich]

BRAVO !

[@holetoanotheruniverse4690]

20w is very low... but the bandwith and the static noice in that frequency area are also very low. And there are also super high gain antenna on ground and on the spacecraft. But in the next years the transmitter will lose power. Back in the 70s they transmit with about 30, in 10 years with not more than 5 watt and thats to low to communicate with the voyagers :(

[@freuderickfrankenstein8417]

Advancements on the ground lowering receiver noise are the main contributor to continuing to receive their signals.

[@sariaswife941]

Goodnight

[@lisabergman1444]

Go Voyager 2

[@lflobo]

That was a good year... the year I was born :)

[@NKG416]

reaching into infinity!

[@AGAPITOJAUREGUI]

Falta fecha del reportaje.

[@TGC40401]

So... when do I start... Tuesday?

[@mshioty]

Actually, radio waves travel very quickly through space. Radio waves are a kind of electromagnetic radiation, and thus they move at the speed of light.

[@kaniplayer6439]

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 now saying bye to us they leaving our solar system AND GOING TO NEW ADVENTURES

[@typingcat]

Could we... send a new space probe into the exact same path so that it can relay the signals from Voyager 1 and 2? That way we may be able to communicate with the Voyagers when they are too far away from Earth to send signals directly to Earth.

[@DanSlotea]

Jeong-hun Sin basically, we can't. Voyagers took advantage of a lucky moment in planet alignment and used gravity assist to accelerate in the direction they are following. Google/wiki "gravity assist".

[@alexsiemers7898]

And communication issues won't be what cuts us off from the spacecraft. Instead, it's the lack of power from the RTGs

[@lazarusboi6289]

Where are the Pioneer Probes now?

[@ketfarns4497]

United World Mapping The Pioneer probes are not transmitting anything any more. Well, they might be but their signal is too weak at the distance to the Earth they are at. Though there are estimated approximations to their locations, based on previous telemetry data, and newly thermal recoil calculations. Pioneer 10 is roughly 124.8012416061 AU from Earth. Pioneer 11 is roughly 124.95498711 AU from Earth. www.skymarvels.com/infopages/vids/Pioneer-10-11-Current%20001.htm

[@7uhz232]

How about they launch another voyager? VOYAGER 3

[@andresh7936]

El soundtrack es hermoso y precioso Cual es?

[@nielswil]

How come the distance between the Voyager 2 and the Earth is getting less?

[@coffeespy1133]

It’s not

[@user-ic3oq6pb4g]

獨立三邊靜,輕生 一劍知~唐詩?

[@klobasa007007]

I mean...does this thing never gets hit by a rock?

[@christianbitar4216]

klobasa007007 It's very rare.. especially for something so small.

[@ahriman935]

Contrary to the popular belief, despite how many rocks there are floating through the space, the volume they take up is so huge that the distances between them are ridiculously large. So large that to get hit by anything you have to be supremely unlucky. Even inside the asteroid belt there are countless rocks but the distances in between them are so vast that you would need to actively try to hit something and even then it would be a challenge.

[@naty1135]

is it posible aa planete existe put of solar system?

[@michelpichel3711]

Thats over a lightday

[@ketfarns4497]

Michel Pichel Not quite. 19 hours 21 minutes, and 09 seconds one way light time as of today (September 5, 2017.) voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/

[@reyjoejackbugarso4924]

voyonger 1 is greatly spacecraft to journy in space but rosseta is fail to get far away

[@BIackMoonCGI]

Can't somebody fly out there and put a new battery on it and maybe up the power of the transmitter?

[@sigglass2183]

Music name in this video?