NASA Warns That Voyager 1 Has Made “Impossible” Discovery after 45 Years in Space

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  • @CapitanFantasma1776
    @CapitanFantasma1776 Год назад +222

    Like your Voyager updates! Thanks!

    • @beyonddiscoveryofficial
      @beyonddiscoveryofficial  Год назад +19

      You're welcome! Glad you like them, Howard!

    • @robertteague9692
      @robertteague9692 Год назад +27

      V-ger. Lol. Younger people watch the first Star Trek movie. V-ger(Voyager 1 becomes sentient and comes back looking for it's parent).

  • @jeffdunnell6693
    @jeffdunnell6693 Год назад +3029

    Always fascinating to hear how the voyagers are doing,my wife built the central control modules for both of them,her dna is in it,she passed in 2020, her legacy is traveling the cosmos

  • @wishusknight3009
    @wishusknight3009 Год назад +652

    So, the discovery is the heliopause isn't quite what it was thought to be. This was released 2 years ago. Gad's, i hate wasting time on video's with such bad titles that waffle on for 15 minutes before getting to the point that isn't actually news from this year. But its a great brief history of V1 and V2. It should have been titled to reflect that

  • @treborg777
    @treborg777 Год назад +577

    No one gives credit to those who planned the Voyager missions. That planning was phenomenal.

    • @Telcontar1962
      @Telcontar1962 Год назад +23

      We might nit know there names but the Voyager missions have been headline news since they took off in 1977.
      I've been following them with interest since the before their launch and I've never known anyone talk about them with anything but complete awe for what they initially hoped they would achieve to what they accomplished to date.
      Patrick Moore CBE being just one.

    • @Mark5mith
      @Mark5mith Год назад +20

      I love it when a plan comes together, impressed I am.

    • @strongesthulk
      @strongesthulk Год назад +8

      Maybe that teck was "lost" along with the people who built them.

    • @jayjaynella4539
      @jayjaynella4539 Год назад +11

      Let's not forget the people who built the parts that went into these probes.

    • @sherlockpoirot9946
      @sherlockpoirot9946 Год назад +8

      Well, they did give them credit in the video.

  • @275Vet-RLTW
    @275Vet-RLTW Год назад +59

    My dad worked for JPL and worked on this project. He put my name on the creators plate attached to voyager 1 sailing across the universe!

  • @jaysparrow6631
    @jaysparrow6631 Год назад +152

    I’m going to say it as no one else has noticed but that cameraman is doing a great job following those voyagers and providing us with footage of voyager as they travel through space dedicating his life to his craft I salute you mister cameraman! 🥹😢

  • @ddc163264
    @ddc163264 Год назад +32

    It was very nice to meet and speak with Mr. Sagan. He had just given a speech in Denver and we spoke about the gold disk on Voyager. He was very honored to be a part of something that momentous. At the time I was a part of an observatory team as a volunteer. The planning of these things was beyond incredible. Remember computing wasn't the same as it is now. Some of the work was calculated by hand. I worked on some of them at places like MIT. just to have 10MB took a unit the size of a large filing cabinet. Ironic that we can't seem to make constant contact on our cell system, but these people can communicate with objects beyond out solar system on a constant and regular basis.

  • @1KGB
    @1KGB Год назад +85

    The 8-track recorders on the Voyagers were not consumer form factor cartridge tapes (see 9:15 in the video). The data tape recorder (DTR) system was subcontracted to Lockheed and manufactured by Odetics Corp. The specs show that the machine was a belt driven recorder that used a 1,076′ (328 m) long reel of 1/2″ (12.5 mm) wide magnetic tape which recorded data on eight separate tracks. The DTR could record at two different speeds - 115.2 kbps and 7.2 kbps. Playback topped out at a much slower 57.6 kbps, with 33.6, 21.6, and 7.2 kbps being options as well. Also note it's a reel-to-reel system, not an endless loop.

  • @grassblade2
    @grassblade2 Год назад +221

    What is the single most amazing fact about their flights is that they've never been hit by anything capable of wazzing them out of existence.

  • @markgradwell4987
    @markgradwell4987 Год назад +54

    Voyager 1,Voyager 2 and Hubble are without doubt one of science Greatest Achievements. I was 10 years old in 1977, 46 years later thier still sending information back. Now that is AWESOME.

  • @jamescpotter
    @jamescpotter Год назад +353

    I did a rough calculation of Voyagers speed at 38,210 mph. In the past 45 years, the craft has travelled the distance of one week at light speed or 15,062,382,000 miles. Light travels at 5.88 TRILLION miles in one year. Therefore it will take Voyager about 2,295 more years to complete the distance of one light year. Keep in mind our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to be 100,000 lights years in diameter. You can do the math!

  • @thomasgradie469
    @thomasgradie469 Год назад +137

    My brother worked with Carl Sagan as a researcher at Cornell University. He was a planetary scientist (retired now). The images from V1 and 2 came into their lab for study. I was taking a TV broadcasting class at Syracuse U. and one of our project assignments was to make a slide production of some event. I took some of the Voyager pictures and put them to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon along with some narration to explain what it he Voyager program was all about. Probably the most interesting and fun experiences in my life.

  • @josephburns9819
    @josephburns9819 Год назад +37

    The Voyagers are the most amazing spacecraft ever launched! 45 years and still traveling…talk about getting your moneys worth! Amazing 1970’s technology working better and longer than the gadgets of today.

  • @GaiaEarthLife
    @GaiaEarthLife Год назад +162

    Absolutely amazing that these spacecraft are still going strong after all these years. Reminds me of the Apollo missions, in that looking back the technology seems so basic and "old", but was so well designed and engineered that they keep on going like the energizer bunny. So proud of the people who worked on these!

  • @GM-fh5jp
    @GM-fh5jp Год назад +9

    The brainpower and intelligence to produce the mathmatics required for such navigation is just mind boggling.
    This is 15yrs bfore the first basic home PC and predates even portable pocket calculators so we are talking slide rule stuff here.
    High fidelity ( for their time) 8 track tapes to record the sensor signals and not much better than pinball machine, solid-state electronics made it all happen.
    I bow my head and salute the geniuses that made it all work.

  • @srhabb
    @srhabb Год назад +126

    What's interesting how these are the only objects ever made to last for decades and still function with zero error or maintenance. Makes you wonder.

  • @Greyapas
    @Greyapas Год назад +13

    So 19 and a half minutes.. Of which 15 and a half were a retrospective on the mission. I liked the history, but would have liked to hear more about how the heliosphere is giving data that doesn't quite match up with theories.

  • @derekwood91
    @derekwood91 Год назад +30

    It seems that if there's one thing we've learned about the unknown, it's that it's still unknown.

  • @Mark-pp7jy
    @Mark-pp7jy Год назад +24

    I have never seen that image of Earth from 3.8 billion miles. I'm suddenly feeling smaller than a grain of sand. 🏖️

  • @yourcaseworker6916
    @yourcaseworker6916 Год назад +7

    What's really gonna bake your noodle is when they come back to earth from the opposite direction they were launched.

  • @benedicthlongwane7186
    @benedicthlongwane7186 Год назад +11

    Looking vulnerable in that small dot called Earth, and considering how expansive the universe is and how many dots, big and small it does have, it's clear as day that we are not alone!

  • @marlenefunk2137
    @marlenefunk2137 Год назад +9

    I have followed 1 ans 2 sincd blast off. I lived in Florida back then. They are fantastic! I had tshirts that said "Go Voyagers Go!" And they have done that. The people that designed them must be so proud. I am so grateful to everyone involved in their birth and continued life.

  • @danuttall
    @danuttall Год назад +16

    Because NASA sent Voyager 1 to look at Titan during its fly-by of Saturn, it was out of position to continue to the outer gas planets, but NASA got the information they needed from the Voyager 1 fly-by, so Voyager 2 was lined up using a gravity assist from Saturn to continue the tour of the outer solar system. Pluto was not in the correct place in its orbit for a Voyager fly-by, so that had to wait for New Horizons.

  • @timshirt8683
    @timshirt8683 Год назад +58

    How amazing to think I was 16yrs old when these pieces of engineering took off to do their jobs.
    It's always interesting to read, and see how they are doing.
    Hopefully they will continue for many years to come.

  • @dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189
    @dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189 Год назад +6

    The Voyager's have been traveling roughly for 45yrs at 38,000mph & haven't gone a trillion miles yet. The National debt has surpassed 33 trillion dollars. Gives you an idea of how large a trillion is. Oh, the vast emptiness of of space! (and our bank account!)

  • @Gappasaurus
    @Gappasaurus Год назад +12

    Welp, guess we can expect a visit from V’ger any time now 😳

  • @stlmopoet
    @stlmopoet Год назад +43

    Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1. They knew Voyager 1 would overtake Voyager 2.

  • @daveyhansen
    @daveyhansen Год назад +23

    It is interesting, to me, to think that some other beings might realize that they are not alone in the universe, but we may never do the same.

  • @vinnieklimas8800
    @vinnieklimas8800 Год назад +23

    My Dad was into space/NASA stuff for the federal government ... So I enjoy listening to this stuff ... It reminds ne of my Dad.

  • @shaunl9777
    @shaunl9777 Год назад +6

    The fact that they're using 8 track tapes & I have more memory on my phone than both spacecraft is insane

  • @masterpou7244
    @masterpou7244 Год назад +7

    Must be a few who were there at the start...even before launch day, who have passed on , and their amazing work is out there performing, sending information back home...that's something amazing and super special..☝😎

  • @edc8909
    @edc8909 Год назад +13

    With all of the new technologies and genius getting evolved, I'm betting with in twenty years, we'll have a space craft that will catch up with these probes.

  • @rob3539
    @rob3539 Год назад +9

    The human mind is the most remarkable thing in the universe... everything you see (other than nature) from dawn to dark is something initially conjured up within a human mind.

  • @fredacuneo5180
    @fredacuneo5180 Год назад +50

    From tall ships with mighty sails to wonders of technology and engineering flying through the vastness of interstellar space, the ambition for humankind to explore, be it across or from our "pale blue dot," is unquenchable. Thank you for the updates. Simply amazing. 4:21 - It's Carl Sagan!

  • @waltp3373
    @waltp3373 Год назад +42

    8-track tapes were durable? Since when? I can't tell you how many 8-track tapes I took apart to repair because they seized up. I was so glad when audio technology moved on to other forms of recording media.

    • @roryreddog3258
      @roryreddog3258 Год назад +16

      Yeah they probably didn’t get them from RadioShack 😂

    • @azul29156
      @azul29156 Год назад

      You bring up a good point. I'm not a space denier and I tend to think that we actually did go to the Moon however, to imagine those 8-track tapes working all these years in deep space flawlessly takes more faith and imagination then it would to imagine that God has miraculously cured the spacecraft of all ills without us knowing it just so they could explore and send us information. I know it sounds crazy but what is more likely? Is it more likely that an 8-track tape worked flawlessly in deep space for 40 years with no intervention, or that someone or something had to fix it? At the very least space is freaky weird. Also apparently on Mars curiosity Rover the static electricity magically cleaned the solar panels that one time after they had gotten completely covered with dust. Not strange at all!

    • @azul29156
      @azul29156 Год назад +8

      Oh yeah and those magical gravity assists that's so conveniently give the spacecraft added velocity without any fuel. I know we're supposed to believe that we're just not smart enough to comprehend the mathematics and that it really does work. It's true I'm not very educated in this field and I know it is supposed to be robbing kinetic energy from the planet it's passing so it's not getting free energy but it sure would be neat if we could use that same concept to swing us away from Earth so we wouldn't need fuel to get out of Earth's gravity well. As the spacecraft nears a planet it descends into its gravity well. It's just so tough for me to comprehend how that the planet spits it out of the gravity well with extra velocity. When you jump on a trampoline it does throw you back up but never quite as as much energy as you put in. Only if someone else beside you put more energy into your bounce then you will go higher. So where's the magical little switch that makes it possible to steal energy from the larger body of mass on some occasions and not others?

    • @azul29156
      @azul29156 Год назад +5

      Also I think it's a little bit strange how they have been shooting through space for all these years and have not got destroyed by any small particles traveling at high velocities. At the speeds the spacecraft is traveling even the tiniest things could destroy it. Apparently the environment is pristine.

    • @bnk091182
      @bnk091182 Год назад +9

      I'm sure NASA had a jacked up 8 track cartridge unlike our crappy plastic ones. It was consider the best tech at that time in principle. They just constructed theirs to last forever with metal materials, instead of lasting just until the artist's next album dropped.
      Just like when CDs first came out, they had that nearly indestructible clear layer on the surface. Yet shortly thereafter, suddenly you could scratch them with a feather. THEN came the CD scratch remover machines, cleaners, polishes, technicians, etc. It's all about the $$$.

  • @bab008
    @bab008 Год назад +28

    It's funny how any times Voyager has "left the solar system" over the years. Not everyone says it's in interstellar space. Some won't say that until it passes the last theoretical Oort cloud object

  • @dermotmcglinchey282
    @dermotmcglinchey282 Год назад +28

    Just shows the quality in engineering those craft , the people working on them were obviously dedicated and highly intelligent…Fabulous achievement to an amazing project…👏👏👏👍

  • @chrismaverick9828
    @chrismaverick9828 Год назад +3

    In two millions years some alien culture will find one of the Voyager probes and will be seriously disappointed at the realization they can't get any more Chuck Berry.

  • @richardjackson7624
    @richardjackson7624 Год назад +40

    As a person that studied environmental science now 50 years ago, I am super impressed by what these space explorers have done for advancing man's knowledge of the Universe.

  • @johnnymfbravo7163
    @johnnymfbravo7163 Год назад +2

    The most likely fate for Voyager 1 is that it will drift thru space for all of eternity, never to be seen by anyone or anything ever again.

  • @marcosargen3729
    @marcosargen3729 Год назад +31

    One of the greatest accomplishments ever made by humankind.

  • @TheWinterwraith
    @TheWinterwraith Год назад +7

    The Voyagers have covered almost as many miles as my old VW T25 😂

  • @hmui1345
    @hmui1345 Год назад +12

    Even more amazing, those engineers were using slide rules to design with only three digits significent.

  • @gregdenson7544
    @gregdenson7544 Год назад +6

    Those 8-track tapes must've been built way better than any consumer 8-track tapes since I remember back in the day that my player was notorious for eating the tapes.

  • @tompaxton8588
    @tompaxton8588 Год назад +5

    I've been a fan since I was a young boy. Just amazing they are still working

  • @judyofthewoods
    @judyofthewoods Год назад +3

    Now, if only they could make consumer goods that last that long at that kind of abuse. A little humidity in my house and the magnetic emulsion on my VHS tapes just wiped right off.

  • @massappeal2696
    @massappeal2696 Год назад +14

    Here I am thinking August comes before September but apparently not…

  • @ManaBDew
    @ManaBDew Год назад +2

    Billions of miles into deep interstellar space ☝️😎👍
    Breakthroughs
    Godspeed sincerely

  • @doqas
    @doqas Год назад +4

    I really hope there’ll be a Voyager 3 and 4 and possibly 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and beyond

  • @adredy
    @adredy Год назад +16

    45years on 1 charge 😊

  • @gudrungaukel4049
    @gudrungaukel4049 Год назад +1

    I love that he calls them spacecrafts, I also love the Voyagers❤❤❤ Im '76... they're my age❤❤❤

  • @Thomas-pq4ys
    @Thomas-pq4ys Год назад +31

    I watch/listen to everything Voyager. I found inconsistencies in this.
    V-2 was launched first, V-1 second. Tjere were others, but the data recorder is an oddball 9-track, and looks nothing like the plastic 8-track tapes you show... but still, it is on magnetic tape made of mylar...
    I enjoyed finding these flaws... but still, the world needs to be reminded of these missions...
    I'll shut up now.

    • @peterthornton8520
      @peterthornton8520 Год назад +9

      Well spoken though. This is just more regurgitated facts and some figures. CLICK BAIT

  • @cliveburgess4128
    @cliveburgess4128 Год назад +11

    The question I have always thought about is, how to they survive random space debris? It seems like letting a mosquito loose in a bowling alley, Amazing!!, Thank you!

  • @scottymoondogjakubin4766
    @scottymoondogjakubin4766 Год назад +33

    2 of my favorite spacecrafts ever built ! Cool watching nasa's dashboard and the crafts odometer readings adding up !

  • @FoggaNation-ez9xo
    @FoggaNation-ez9xo Год назад +4

    To think people really think the earth isn't spherical

  • @swampcastle8142
    @swampcastle8142 Год назад +17

    Voyagers should be a regular launch item even if they do nothing than act as a relay for other voyagers. The Starlink cluster has shown us that we have not been thinking big enough for our space efforts.

  • @TonyBongo869
    @TonyBongo869 Год назад +13

    Voyager also hit a high temperature wall when it broke through the sun’s magnetic heliosphere, suggests we are passing through the remnants of a supernova debris cloud

  • @immortalsofar5314
    @immortalsofar5314 Год назад +11

    I believe there is a better analogy to gravity assists - it's like surfing gravity. If a mass were stationary, there would be no way to transfer any energy but as it moves through space, it creates a gravity dip around it. Dropping into that wave allows a smaller object to "surf" it and pick up some of the speed.

  • @andrewkingdon2000
    @andrewkingdon2000 Год назад +5

    It's going to be a shocker when voyager hits the wall like Truman did when his boat hit the wall of the sphere. Then we'll all go "bugger"....

  • @markgoddard2560
    @markgoddard2560 Год назад +3

    If you want to escape the relentless dialogue and want to know what the satellite found, skip to 19.25

  • @ricstanden
    @ricstanden Год назад +8

    So voyager 1 lifted off on the 5th September 1977 and then voyager 2 jumped back through time and launched ok the 20th Augusts 1977.
    Wow! If NASA pulled that off. Going into space would be a bit pointless. Coz all they would have to do is go back in time and see everything they wanted as those objects would have been closer to the earth!
    But good video!

  • @Alex-zi1nb
    @Alex-zi1nb Год назад +2

    mind blowing we can still get updates from this

  • @FreshMootz
    @FreshMootz Год назад +2

    How they just updated the Voyager software is incredible.

  • @gmangoodtime9505
    @gmangoodtime9505 Год назад +3

    All this hate, violence and war going on earth. Look at the universe, full of peace and unlimited questions.

  • @philipstewart4474
    @philipstewart4474 Год назад +35

    I as a young man was never very interested in the unknown, but as I grew older I found myself thinking about the unknown all the time and these two missions were undoubtedly man’s greatest achievements so far, and I imagine between them and the JWT will probably make contact with other life forms in some way 💫

  • @hellskitchen10036
    @hellskitchen10036 Год назад +1

    Now I know what happened to my Grand Funk Railroad 8 Track tape !

  • @gino7444
    @gino7444 Год назад

    Your feel for drama hits an all time high, the Voyagers are an incredible achievement but djeeeewish! ... don't overdo it!!

  • @davidmcneil2296
    @davidmcneil2296 Год назад +1

    2:45 hahah Uranus. I hope it got an up close photo of Uranus so it can study the craters on Uranus.

  • @HeatherDavis-x4e
    @HeatherDavis-x4e Год назад +10

    I see you worked really hard on this video and really good job! Thank you for all your hard work

  • @martinporteous3483
    @martinporteous3483 Год назад +4

    How do you go "Northwards" in space?

  • @icandivideos5743
    @icandivideos5743 Год назад +8

    Being 12 billion miles from home how do they communicate and send messages back to earth? How do the commands reach that far?

  • @JoeKidd33
    @JoeKidd33 Год назад +7

    Lol. The ships took off opposite of the way you said

  • @crazypete3759
    @crazypete3759 Год назад +1

    Have we sent any updated probes since the voyagers?

  • @miguelsuarez8010
    @miguelsuarez8010 Год назад +3

    With enormous size of Jupiter it's natural that it exerts deformations on its moons through gravity, heating up the interior and forming volcanos and quakes.

  • @felsinferguson1125
    @felsinferguson1125 Год назад +13

    What a wonderful example of turning a 30 second "discovery" (that's been covered better elsewhere - several times) into a bloated 20 minute nothing-burger...

  • @christianwolf68
    @christianwolf68 Год назад +11

    i dream that one day the human race could achieve space travel and take the same course as each Voyager to track them down and possibly to update them or even retrieve them and bring them home.

  • @raymondparsley7442
    @raymondparsley7442 Год назад +2

    It all comes back to the fascinating human brain and mind... our creator made us something very special. We can be thankful for voyager and much, much more. Someone once said the universe created the human mind (being) to understand itself... and so it did.

  • @richardleighton5009
    @richardleighton5009 Год назад +4

    So to the Folks making these vids about either Voyager. Why is it that We must watch the entire history of Voyager from the beginning when You truly never had anything new to say to begin with, excuse Me but doesn't that make the vid just Click Bait ? Because You added Nothing that We didn't already know !!!

  • @KnoxParanormal
    @KnoxParanormal Год назад

    Thanks for the update

  • @cillalilly
    @cillalilly Год назад +2

    How long until the Enterprise finds it? ;)

  • @catjudo1
    @catjudo1 Год назад +2

    That the Voyager spacecraft could serve as distant messengers for a long-dead Earth reminds me of the Star Trek TNG episode The Inner Light.

  • @rajvirdee1317
    @rajvirdee1317 Год назад +5

    Its unbelievable how this simple craft has gone where no man has ever gone.

  • @rockahbilly76
    @rockahbilly76 Год назад +2

    Mind boggling. Thanks.

  • @conradfrykman-vz4on
    @conradfrykman-vz4on Год назад +1

    Gravity assistance doesn't 'sponsor's a spacecraft because the gravity of a planet also 'pulls' on the craft as it leaves. Startalk has a great explainer on the subject

  • @DarkStormHero
    @DarkStormHero Год назад +6

    Watching things like this make me a little sad , We will never know so much about out universe its mind blowing , and what we will know i wont be alive to see unless we somehow invent FTL or some interstellar travel in the next 50 years.

  • @robertma2146
    @robertma2146 Год назад +5

    If memory serves me correctly, voyager 2 was launched first, then voyager 1.

  • @chrisgraham2904
    @chrisgraham2904 Год назад +2

    V'Ger, Will you ever return to Earth to meet with your creator?

  • @jeffalvich9434
    @jeffalvich9434 Год назад +2

    Designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company Space and Communications Group in El Segundo California. Incredible engineers and scientists!!!!

  • @normandunford5747
    @normandunford5747 Год назад +1

    Wasn't there a Star Trek episode about Voyager. Me thinks Nasa may be getting confused here.

  • @peanutgallery4159
    @peanutgallery4159 Год назад +5

    Its amazing these 2 very basic crafts are still going and sending new info

  • @juangamundi3050
    @juangamundi3050 Год назад +5

    Sound like the movie
    V-ger, would like to meet his creator.

  • @philipbuckley759
    @philipbuckley759 Год назад +1

    Voyager 1 discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis. At Saturn, Voyager 1 found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring.

  • @DomingoDeSantaClara
    @DomingoDeSantaClara Год назад +4

    Amazing to think i was a fresh faced 15 year old just starting my first job when they launched, now I'm an old bastard and they're still going!😅

    • @daveyhansen
      @daveyhansen Год назад

      I was 18, so you are still a punk in my book.

  • @spencer82rocks
    @spencer82rocks Год назад +1

    Damn as soon as he turn the camera back to earth, I tear up a bit remembering where we from and where will be in the future 😮

  • @Thomas-xm5ym
    @Thomas-xm5ym Год назад +2

    Wow that was fascinating!

  • @planetjoe
    @planetjoe Год назад +2

    I live in Cornwall and can't get my 4g mobile phone to connect a call half the time

  • @Georgi_Slavov
    @Georgi_Slavov Год назад +4

    Most likely in the near future space travel will be so fast,we would be able to catch up wit the probes in a few weeks or days.Dont imagine them being our message to other galaxies.

  • @BLUEDOGLIFER
    @BLUEDOGLIFER Год назад +2

    Now we are the species sending UFOs into space.

  • @RichardJennings-b8w
    @RichardJennings-b8w Год назад +4

    The conclusion of your excellent broadcast is so profound. scientists and theorists firmly believe that many advanced civilisations have annihilated themselves and that premise can easily apply to us! the fact that these magnificent space craft may eventually reach an advanced civilisation with their antediluvian durable electronics long after we have self destructed should be an indispensable warning to humanity

  • @ET_Don
    @ET_Don Год назад +14

    I believe Voyager 2 was launched first, Voyager 1 launched 2nd.