Worth celebrating! But, instead, we are celebrating some billionaire’s joy ride in space.
SplashyTetraspore on
The Voyagers are two impressive spacecrafts for all of the science they’ve generated over their long lives. It will truly be a sad day when their end of mission.
shindleria on
One day when we manage to travel much more rapidly through space, there will probably be museums constructed beside them for us to visit as they continue their endless journeys.
hokeyphenokey on
The article says it uses thrusters 40 times a day using liquid hydrazine. I don’t know how they still have fuel on board but it appears that they do.
I thought they would only correct it once in a blue moon that far out. It’s not like it’s falling into any new gravity wells.
hueythecat on
FYI why: “to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth”
Emotional_Mammoth_65 on
But f**king Boeing can’t get it’s new thrusters to work. WTF.
rumpusroom on
Oof. Been there. You’re going to need some Advil too, little guy.
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Worth celebrating! But, instead, we are celebrating some billionaire’s joy ride in space.
The Voyagers are two impressive spacecrafts for all of the science they’ve generated over their long lives. It will truly be a sad day when their end of mission.
One day when we manage to travel much more rapidly through space, there will probably be museums constructed beside them for us to visit as they continue their endless journeys.
The article says it uses thrusters 40 times a day using liquid hydrazine. I don’t know how they still have fuel on board but it appears that they do.
I thought they would only correct it once in a blue moon that far out. It’s not like it’s falling into any new gravity wells.
FYI why: “to solve an issue that could keep the 47-year-old spacecraft from communicating with Earth”
But f**king Boeing can’t get it’s new thrusters to work. WTF.
Oof. Been there. You’re going to need some Advil too, little guy.