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Title: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on December 02, 2017, 04:31:45 AM: Still pretty cool that these birds are still active after 40 years in space.

https://www.space.com/38967-voyager-1-fires-backup-thrusters-after-37-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29 (https://www.space.com/38967-voyager-1-fires-backup-thrusters-after-37-years.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+spaceheadlines+%28SPACE.com+Headline+Feed%29)

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ (https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/)
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: freakazoid on December 02, 2017, 06:17:16 AM: What are the thrusters, compressed air or something?
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM: What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be? It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: mtnbkr on December 02, 2017, 07:17:15 AM: Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be? It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

Heat/cold cycling, impacts from space dust up to small objects, radiation.

Chris
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: K Frame on December 02, 2017, 09:03:52 AM: Quote from: freakazoid on December 02, 2017, 06:17:16 AM
What are the thrusters, compressed air or something?

If I remember correctly... hydrazine.
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: Firethorn on December 02, 2017, 11:36:42 AM: Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be? It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

You'd be surprised. Radiation can cause metals to crystallize, migrate, and fuse.
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: 230RN on December 02, 2017, 05:34:24 PM: Quote from: Fly320s on December 02, 2017, 06:58:07 AM
What kind of degradation of the spacecraft can there be? It is flying through a near vacuum, so rust and corrosion shouldn't be an issue.

The guys from α-Lyrae using it for target practice?
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: RoadKingLarry on December 02, 2017, 05:52:15 PM: I still geek out a little on space program stuff. This thing has been zipping through space for better than 40 years and is still functional. Interesting that it takes almost 2 days to send a command and receive a response.
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: KD5NRH on December 02, 2017, 08:36:58 PM: Quote from: RoadKingLarry on December 02, 2017, 05:52:15 PM
I still geek out a little on space program stuff. This thing has been zipping through space for better than 40 years and is still functional. Interesting that it takes almost 2 days to send a command and receive a response.

Well, there aren't any 7th Fleet destroyers out there to run into...
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: 230RN on December 05, 2017, 11:57:36 AM: Well, there Oorta be.
Title: Re: Do you want V'ger? 'Cause this is how you get V'ger.
Post by: Jocassee on December 05, 2017, 03:26:35 PM: Quote from: 230RN on December 05, 2017, 11:57:36 AM
Well, there Oorta be.

Tallpine? Is that you?