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Posted: 09 January 2010 at 8:05pm | IP Logged Quote Stuff
Both Voyager craft are still sending data to Earth, see
Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery

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Posted: 11 January 2010 at 3:19am | IP Logged Quote Grinz

Thanks for that, Stuff.  I have been interested in the Voyagers all along and continue to be amazed at how much we are still learning from two craft that are, by today's standards, fairly "primitive".

Yes I know New Horizons is on its way to the Kuyper Belt, but its mission is a bit different - although (I may be wrong of course) it will also act as something of a "voyager" afterwards.

Isn't it time that we sent out more voyagers like those original two? It takes an awfully long time for them to get where they are now and compared to some other missions, and even the cost of keeping the ISS going, it would not be particularly expensive to send out a few craft with some robust communication systems to report back on some basic conditions - much like the Voyagers are doing now.  My first prize would be for (one of) them to visit the Neptune system and another to fly by the Uranus system before flying off towards the Kuyper Belt, Oort cloud and whatever... 



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Posted: 11 January 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged Quote Stuff
NASA eventually must acquire the Arthur Clarke type communications relay satellites in orbit around the Sun and outside Pluto's orbit.

My other thought is to launch a series of spacecraft, each with similar sensor capability, in shotgun (select many targets on the celestial sphere) logarithmic orbits (this to make it more difficult to trace back to Earth just in case the alarmists prove to be correct).

In a few years we (humans) will have developed closed system technology to support an arc spacecraft on missions to other star systems (Larry Niven coined the name "slowboat" when referring to these generations ships.). Should we eventually develop FTL technology, humans will be waiting for each slowboat at its destination.

Well, it is something to speculate upon...

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 How I wish I had the money and resources for higher education! I have only HS plus what I learned from reading and some courses in the US military. The "Fluff"? And talking about gravity and magnitism, what I understand are the most mis-understood and most important forces in not only this universe but "the others".

I am a huge, huge "fan" if you wish of "Voyager".   I salute the combined technology to create this robotic adventurer! 

I am not sure, but I believe the first time Vger was called Vger was from the very first "Star Trek -The Movie". If anyone heard the term prior, please post and let me know! (pronounced veeger).  ~ Robin
 



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Posted: 12 January 2010 at 2:40am | IP Logged Quote Grinz
No idea, Robin - but that nickname has not caught on universally and I for one never use it.... maybe someone else can answer your question.

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Posted: 12 January 2010 at 4:37pm | IP Logged Quote Stuff
Yes, Robin, the name originated with the first Star Trek movie.

To me, V'ger connects our potential future history with the present, and I find something special in that these two small, primitive, pioneering spacecraft may, one day, bring the universe to Earth.

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Edited by Stuff on 12 January 2010 at 4:40pm

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