Space the final frontier

[Daddydavek]

The Voyagers were launched 40 years ago and marked the first time mankind explored our solar system.  Their discoveries are still ongoing but they have finished their grand survey of the solar system.  PBS will air a special to mark the anniversary on August 23rd.  

 

Here is a video to introduce it:

 

 

 

An interesting article about the Voyager mission and the documentary:

 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nostalgic-voyager-documentary-relives-first-exploration-solar-system

[wildone]

Oh, I thought this would be thread for Star Trek Discovery starting up

 

This is equally interesting

[Drew Espinosa]

 

[wildone]

2 minutes ago, Drew Espinosa said:

 

 

 

Blocked to all from outside the US of A

[Drew Espinosa]

1 minute ago, wildone said:

 

 

Blocked to all from outside the US of A

 Darn! 

 

Here's a different video about Voryager 1 by a British man, so you should be able to see it.

 

[wildone]

Saw that one

 

One of the things that amaze me is 40 years ago, there really wasn't much computers...definitely not home computers. So nowadays, with the DSN all run by computers, they are still able to communicate by sending radio communications to the Voyager spacecraft and they respond. Likewise, on Earth, they can receive telecommunications from the spacecraft and use the computers to better interpret the data and pictures.

 

Imagine if these spacecraft had the technology that we had today. What is already amazing in real life would even be more amazing!

[Daddydavek]

The video is in the science news article and the article should be available to all.  The link is in my first post.

 

Another link that may work or may not is the PBS link.

 

http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/home/

 

If you have flipboard on your phone they have a whole spread on it too.

 

Here is a web link for home computers and tablets:

 

https://flipboard.com/topic/voyager#!

 

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by Daddydavek

[Daddydavek]

If you did not get to see the PBS broadcast special, the program is available on line.

 

http://www.ninenet.org/blogs/program-highlights/the-farthest-voyager-in-space/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw8vnMBRDgARIsACm_BhJhLGdVESXh1IABEJ6dIN9mEz0QSmugApLpahF4OQqrNmhLSj9W3lgaAjbgEALw_wcB

 

Edited August 25, 2017 by Daddydavek