branfont Posted March 29, 2018 Share Posted March 29, 2018 (edited) After 37 years of inactivity, the NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 fired up its thrusters for the first time in nearly four decades all the way over in interstellar space. This incredible – and unsuspected – triumph means Voyager 1 can once again communicate with Earth, from 13 billion miles away. Voyager 1, NASA's farthest and fastest spacecraft, is the only human-made object in interstellar space, the environment between the stars. Travelling at speeds of more than 35,000 mph, the Voyagers travel about 900,000 miles farther from Earth each day, a distance equal to roughly 36 times Earth’s circumference. Full article @ UNILAD Edited March 29, 2018 by Jim K Title must match source xrobwx71 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DonC Subscriber² Posted March 29, 2018 Subscriber² Share Posted March 29, 2018 Article also on the Voyager project page: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=108 xrobwx71 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Global Moderator Posted March 29, 2018 Global Moderator Share Posted March 29, 2018 That UNILAD article is horrible. Voyager 1 hasn't "once again" been able to communicate with Earth ... it has been communicating with Earth for over 40 years. The only significance in this is the firing of its backup thrusters which hadn't been used in 37 years. This was already posted here, back in December .... Unobscured Vision 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUC_Snakeman Posted March 30, 2018 Share Posted March 30, 2018 Also, isn't this old news, from December 2017? Why wasn't that mentioned in the first post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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