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
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
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.
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! 🥹😢
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!)
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..☝😎
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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?
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.
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 $$$.
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
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…👏👏👏👍
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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!
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 💫
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 !!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Like your Voyager updates! Thanks!
You're welcome! Glad you like them, Howard!
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).
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
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
No one gives credit to those who planned the Voyager missions. That planning was phenomenal.
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.
I love it when a plan comes together, impressed I am.
Maybe that teck was "lost" along with the people who built them.
Let's not forget the people who built the parts that went into these probes.
Well, they did give them credit in the video.
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!
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! 🥹😢
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
It seems that if there's one thing we've learned about the unknown, it's that it's still unknown.
I have never seen that image of Earth from 3.8 billion miles. I'm suddenly feeling smaller than a grain of sand. 🏖️
What's really gonna bake your noodle is when they come back to earth from the opposite direction they were launched.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!)
Welp, guess we can expect a visit from V’ger any time now 😳
Voyager 2 launched before Voyager 1. They knew Voyager 1 would overtake Voyager 2.
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.
My Dad was into space/NASA stuff for the federal government ... So I enjoy listening to this stuff ... It reminds ne of my Dad.
The fact that they're using 8 track tapes & I have more memory on my phone than both spacecraft is insane
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..☝😎
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.
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.
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!
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.
Yeah they probably didn’t get them from RadioShack 😂
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!
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?
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.
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 $$$.
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
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…👏👏👏👍
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.
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.
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.
One of the greatest accomplishments ever made by humankind.
The Voyagers have covered almost as many miles as my old VW T25 😂
Even more amazing, those engineers were using slide rules to design with only three digits significent.
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.
Were 9 Track units.
I've been a fan since I was a young boy. Just amazing they are still working
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.
Here I am thinking August comes before September but apparently not…
Billions of miles into deep interstellar space ☝️😎👍
Breakthroughs
Godspeed sincerely
I really hope there’ll be a Voyager 3 and 4 and possibly 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and beyond
45years on 1 charge 😊
I love that he calls them spacecrafts, I also love the Voyagers❤❤❤ Im '76... they're my age❤❤❤
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.
Well spoken though. This is just more regurgitated facts and some figures. CLICK BAIT
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!
2 of my favorite spacecrafts ever built ! Cool watching nasa's dashboard and the crafts odometer readings adding up !
To think people really think the earth isn't spherical
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.
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
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.
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"....
If you want to escape the relentless dialogue and want to know what the satellite found, skip to 19.25
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!
mind blowing we can still get updates from this
How they just updated the Voyager software is incredible.
All this hate, violence and war going on earth. Look at the universe, full of peace and unlimited questions.
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 💫
Now I know what happened to my Grand Funk Railroad 8 Track tape !
Your feel for drama hits an all time high, the Voyagers are an incredible achievement but djeeeewish! ... don't overdo it!!
2:45 hahah Uranus. I hope it got an up close photo of Uranus so it can study the craters on Uranus.
I see you worked really hard on this video and really good job! Thank you for all your hard work
How do you go "Northwards" in space?
Being 12 billion miles from home how do they communicate and send messages back to earth? How do the commands reach that far?
Lol. The ships took off opposite of the way you said
Have we sent any updated probes since the voyagers?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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 !!!
Thanks for the update
How long until the Enterprise finds it? ;)
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.
Its unbelievable how this simple craft has gone where no man has ever gone.
Mind boggling. Thanks.
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
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.
If memory serves me correctly, voyager 2 was launched first, then voyager 1.
V'Ger, Will you ever return to Earth to meet with your creator?
Designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company Space and Communications Group in El Segundo California. Incredible engineers and scientists!!!!
Wasn't there a Star Trek episode about Voyager. Me thinks Nasa may be getting confused here.
Its amazing these 2 very basic crafts are still going and sending new info
Sound like the movie
V-ger, would like to meet his creator.
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.
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!😅
I was 18, so you are still a punk in my book.
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 😮
Wow that was fascinating!
I live in Cornwall and can't get my 4g mobile phone to connect a call half the time
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.
Now we are the species sending UFOs into space.
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
I believe Voyager 2 was launched first, Voyager 1 launched 2nd.
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