Both Voyagers were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1977, with Voyager 2 departing a month earlier, and were designed to last five years to study Jupiter and Saturn.
NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft continue for χρόνια 44 years their ικό “magic” – for all of us – their journey into space. They are, perhaps, the longest-lived spacecraft of mankind, which have traveled farther than any other spacecraft and, despite their distances and years, continue to communicate daily with NASA.
However, as the “Daily Mail” writes, the NASA is considering a possible timetable for deactivation their. Voyager has achieved a number of travel record In 2012, Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, became the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space. Launched on August 20, 1977, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have passed through all four planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Poseidon.
Although spaceships traveling in opposite directions have left the planets far behind, and will not approach another star for 40,000 years, they continue to send data and observations back to Earth about where the sun’s influence is diminishing, and where interstellar space begins.
Voyager 1 is currently 23.3 billion kilometers from Earth, while Voyager 2 is 12 billion miles away. This means that engineers need two days to send a message to the spacecraft and receive a response.
Both Voyagers were launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1977 – with Voyager 2 departing a month earlier – and were designed to last five years to study Jupiter and Saturn.
However, they have far exceeded this limit, as they have been traveling for 44 years, but NASA now plans to start shutting down some of Voyager’s systems, hoping to deplete the remaining spacecraft to extend the voyage. about 2030.
Voyager 1 now has only four operating systems, while Voyager 2 has five. Some estimate that they could reach the end of life in 2025, with the plutonium that powers spacecraft splitting beyond what is needed to keep them running. However, others are more optimistic and believe that Voyager could continue to operate for the next decade.
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