MigBuster 2,884 Posted September 12, 2013 And don't come back Janeway! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153 The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars. Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going. Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home. This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+CrazyhorseB34 937 Posted September 12, 2013 Hope it don't come back as V'ger! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+russouk2004 6,958 Posted September 12, 2013 If it DOES come back its probably with ET ffs...hope not.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyviper 1,101 Posted September 12, 2013 And the funny thing is there is more computing power on a modern cellphone than on that thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MAKO69 186 Posted September 13, 2013 Its about Gawd Damn time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrankTB 14 Posted September 13, 2013 Friggin amazing it's power source worked for so long.I did read long time ago that airborne tv transmissions have been travelling out into the great beyond since the very first one really might be worth looking up the first one to see what impression it would give. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Erik 1,812 Posted September 13, 2013 It's probably not known which is the very first, but in 1928 a test signal was broadcast of a felix the cat doll on a turntable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJqeufU_BQU It was broadcast 2 hours a day so engineers could study the television technology. Probably scared all those little green men back to the delta quadrant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAGp-WQHfXo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeanba 1,920 Posted September 13, 2013 One of the greatest achievement ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stratos 3,192 Posted September 13, 2013 And is still sending data? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted September 13, 2013 I read the power left is some fraction of a watt to transmit. They need BIG dishes with the gain turned up to "11" to still hear it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FrankTB 14 Posted September 14, 2013 Erik I read some where that another early one was from Germany in 1938 or there about's featuring guess who! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Erik 1,812 Posted September 14, 2013 Adolf Hitler, the former Chancellor of Germany. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skyviper 1,101 Posted September 14, 2013 Here this thing is from sixties still transmitting and I my cellphone keeps droping calls. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Stary 2,427 Posted September 16, 2013 godspeed Voyager! Nazi Olympics were not the first signal out but man what a climax scene in Contact that made! Re-watched it few years back, still gave me the chills 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JediMaster 451 Posted September 16, 2013 It wasn't the first signal, but it was probably the first one with sufficient broadcast power that we can believe made it out a few dozen light years and was still detectable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
