diary:2024-06:2024-06-15
2024-06-15
Notes from https://www.space.com/voyager-1-fully-operational - Voyager 1 is back online! NASA's most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
- Voyager 1
- It was launched in 1977.
- It is now 46 years old and 24 billion kilometers away from Earth.
- Its primary mission was to study Jupiter and Saturn and that was accomplished by 1980.
- Voyager 1's dogged team
- the flight data subsystem (FDS)
- used to “package” data to be sent to Earth
- sleuthing
- Voyager 2
- went on to study Uranus and Neptune
- resynchronizing Voyager 1's timekeeping software
- the digital tape recorder that measures plasma waves
- Bill James
- Ed Thorp
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