Voyager 1 and 2 still alive!!!! 38,000 mph!

[amazinblue82]

Voyagers' legacy living on in Juno Mission to Jupiter.

Big milestone 20 years in the making (Galileo in 2000) coming up on June 7, 2021. Ganymede, a Jupiter "moon", is bigger than "planet" Mercury

source: NASA’s Juno to Get a Close Look at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede | Mission Juno

On Monday, June 7, at 1:35 p.m. EDT (10:35 a.m. PDT), NASA’s Juno spacecraft will come within 645 miles (1,038 kilometers) of the surface of Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede. The flyby will be the closest a spacecraft has come to the solar system’s largest natural satellite since NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach back on May 20, 2000. Along with striking imagery, the solar-powered spacecraft’s flyby will yield insights into the moon’s composition, ionosphere, magnetosphere, and ice shell. Juno’s measurements of the radiation environment near the moon will also benefit future missions to the Jovian system.

Ganymede is bigger than the planet Mercury and is the only moon in the solar system with its own magnetosphere – a bubble-shaped region of charged particles surrounding the celestial body.​

 

[Turboomni]

Hubble's Primary and Backup Computer Just Broke June 29 report. May not survive.


Hubble's Primary and Backup Computer Just Broke

 

[amazinblue82]

shoot... .. say it aint so:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/iconic-images-hubble-space-telescope-1.5543686

 

[Fratzog]

A replacement for Hubble, the James Webb Space telescope is scheduled to launch October 31st. on top of an Ariane 5 rocket.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...n-james-webb-space-telescope-launch-readiness

 

[3175375]

A fix may be attempted:

NASA will attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope as early as next week

 

[tallhair]

Are the Voyagers dead?

 

[tallhair]

Are the Voyagers dead?

guess not

 

[Turboomni]

Both alive and well sir!!

Voyager - Mission Status

As of 7/11/21

Voyager 1 Voyager 2
Launch Date
Mon, 05 Sept 1977 12:56:00 UTC
Sat, 20 Aug 1977 14:29:00 UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
43YRS
10MOS
06DAYS
09HRS
49MINS
06SECS
43YRS
10MOS
21DAYS
08HRS
16MINS
06SECS
Distance from Earth
14,192,956,602 mi
11,779,383,225 mi
152.68503830 AU
126.72029016 AU
Distance from Sun
14,257,946,291 mi
11,854,417,076 mi
153.38418460 AU
127.52748959 AU
Velocity with respect to the Sun (estimated)
38,026.77 mph
34,390.98 mph
One-Way Light Time
21:09:50

(hh:mm:ss)
17:33:54

(hh:mm:ss)
Cosmic Ray Data




IMP

MET
Instrument Status
Instrument Voyager 1 Voyager 2
Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS) ON ON
Low-Energy Charged Particles (LECP) ON ON
Magnetometer (MAG) ON ON
Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS) ON ON
Plasma Science (PLS) OFF ON
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) OFF OFF
Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer and Radiometer (IRIS) OFF OFF
Photopolarimeter Subsystem (PPS) OFF OFF
Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) OFF OFF
Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) OFF OFF

 

[tallhair]

Both alive and well sir!!

Voyager - Mission Status

As of 7/11/21

Voyager 1 Voyager 2
Launch Date
Mon, 05 Sept 1977 12:56:00 UTC
Sat, 20 Aug 1977 14:29:00 UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
43YRS
10MOS
06DAYS
09HRS
49MINS
06SECS
43YRS
10MOS
21DAYS
08HRS
16MINS
06SECS
Distance from Earth
14,192,956,602 mi
11,779,383,225 mi
152.68503830 AU
126.72029016 AU
Distance from Sun
14,257,946,291 mi
11,854,417,076 mi
153.38418460 AU
127.52748959 AU
Velocity with respect to the Sun (estimated)
38,026.77 mph
34,390.98 mph
One-Way Light Time
21:09:50

(hh:mm:ss)
17:33:54

(hh:mm:ss)
Cosmic Ray Data




IMP

MET
Instrument Status
Instrument Voyager 1 Voyager 2
Cosmic Ray Subsystem (CRS) ON ON
Low-Energy Charged Particles (LECP) ON ON
Magnetometer (MAG) ON ON
Plasma Wave Subsystem (PWS) ON ON
Plasma Science (PLS) OFF ON
Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) OFF OFF
Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer and Radiometer (IRIS) OFF OFF
Photopolarimeter Subsystem (PPS) OFF OFF
Planetary Radio Astronomy (PRA) OFF OFF
Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) OFF OFF

Amazing

 

[Turboomni]

Sending a radio command to either Voyager which is going [the radio waves] the speed of light at 186000 miles per second still takes over 21 hours one way.

 

[polara71]

Sending a radio command to either Voyager which is going [the radio waves] the speed of light at 186000 miles per second still takes over 21 hours one way.

That's remarkable to me. I think it should take days, weeks or months.

 

[Turboomni]

Trivia

Voyager 1 has a 22.4-Watt transmitter – something equivalent to a refrigerator light bulb – but by the time its beacon reaches us, the power has been reduced to roughly 0.1 billion-billionth of a Watt. NASA has to use its largest antenna, a 70-meter dish, or combine two 34-meter antennas, just to hear Voyager.

 

[3175375]

Switch planned for tomorrow.

NASA is about to switch its Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware — a 'risky' maneuver to save its life

 

[LocuMob]

It's back.

Gizmodo: Hubble Space Telescope Is Back.
Hubble Space Telescope Is Back

 

[Turboomni]

Thank goodness! Great news,,there is still much the Hubble can do. I believe it was launched in 1990.

 

[amazinblue82]

Thank goodness! Great news,,there is still much the Hubble can do. I believe it was launched in 1990.

you can say that again chief ... Hubble is gonna rank up there, 100 years from now, as one of our greatest astronomical instruments.

But James Webb (mentioned a couple of times in the this thread)? That rascal is gonna astound us. predicted to "see" back to the first stars (long dead, but the light is still comin' at us at 186K miles per second, for 13.5 billion years) in the Universe.

source:Comparison: Webb vs Hubble Telescope - Webb/NASA

 

[Fratzog]

It appears that new relatively inexpensive balloon based telescope technology is being developed that will rival Hubble.

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-superbit-low-cost-balloon-borne-telescope-rival.html

 

[amazinblue82]

Hubble -- back in business, going stronger that ever after repairs, and at ripe old age of 31.

source: Hubble captures stunning image of squabbling galaxies - CNN

A galactic sibling rivalry is taking place millions of light-years away, and the Hubble Space Telescope has captured it in a stunning image.

About 747 million light-years from Earth, a triplet of galaxies is locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that was spied by Hubble as it observed them interacting in the Lynx constellation.

This unique system of galaxies, which is referred to as Arp 195, was featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
​

One more .. Orion Nebula. Clear night (I mean with NO light pollution -- like camping trip in the deep woods kinda dark) a dirty, fuzzy smudge but still visible at 1,600 LY (that's 1,600 times 6 trillion miles).

Hubble can see much better

 

[polara71]

Hubble -- back in business, going stronger that ever after repairs, and at ripe old age of 31.

View attachment 479130

source: Hubble captures stunning image of squabbling galaxies - CNN

A galactic sibling rivalry is taking place millions of light-years away, and the Hubble Space Telescope has captured it in a stunning image.

About 747 million light-years from Earth, a triplet of galaxies is locked in a gravitational tug-of-war that was spied by Hubble as it observed them interacting in the Lynx constellation.

This unique system of galaxies, which is referred to as Arp 195, was featured in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
​

One more .. Orion Nebula. Clear night (I mean with NO light pollution -- like camping trip in the deep woods kinda dark) a dirty, fuzzy smudge but still visible at 1,600 LY (that's 1,600 times 6 trillion miles).

Hubble can see much better

View attachment 479132

Come to Wyoming or Idaho and blow your mind.

 

[amazinblue82]

i didnt take this pic ... but recall a Wyoming vacation that included this geological "superstar" two decades ago that afforded me the best look at the Milky Way I have ever seen -- before or since.