Even without this current issue V1 will out of usable power in a few years anyway but they would like to continue to collect data until then.
Even if it's mission ends it's journey has only just begun.
https://www.iflscience.com/voyager-1-continues-to-send-nasa-repeating-pattern-of-1s-and-0s-from-interstellar-space-73275
Voyagers 1 and 2 will likely still be going long after we're gone perhaps for millions of years or even more. That's bit of a sobering thought.
Who knows, maybe some future alien will find it and wonder where it came from and perhaps trace it back to a burnt out planet orbiting a dying star.
Billions and billions of stars.... by the Hubble 'scope:
This thread made me muse over the fact that the laws of chemistry and physics are the same everywhere... and so is the periodic table. Where silicon, oxygen, and carbon exists, there are rocks. Sometimes big enough to have a gravity decent enough to hold water.
Where 1% of those stars may have planets, 1% of that 1% may have water, and 1% of those may have carbohydrates, and 1% of those may have coal and oil, and 1% of those may have reproductive life, and 1%...
That's a hell of a lot of planets. I think it's pretty likely that sooner or later our little missives will be found. Later, of course, not sooner, but likely.
And on some of them there will be bicycles and left-handed nuts and bolts and somebody mixing KNO
3 and sulphur and charcoal and grilling food behind their shelters and oh, there have got to be games of chance, so playing a bridge-like game with four of them on their rest days is likely and six sided cubes with dots on them are ideal shapes and pi will be the same, 3.243F6 A8885, because they have 8 "fingers" on each "paw."
Jes' musing.
Nap time.
Terry
