Post #1402556
2026-04-19 17:01 UTC
The problem is that you’re not just sending parts out there. You have to:
- get the upgrade rocket going fast enough to actually catch up with something going very fast with a 20 year head start
- slow down once you get to it.
- make the upgrades while floating in space on a piece of hardware that was designed not to be upgraded and built on earth (hope you don’t need gravity for disassembly) that you control on a 30 minute delay.
At that point we could just launch a whole new satellite with better hardware, going faster, and covering a completely different area of space. Which is what we have done. But we can still make use of the system we have out there. It’s still the furthest out, so it’s still worth using for as long as we can
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@nexguy@lemmy.world 2026-04-19 17:14
We haven’t sent anything away from the sun faster than Voyager 1. It’s still the fastest.
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@veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-21 12:34
That’s a fair point. And I hear the transmissions they send and receive are making even scientific appliances from the 90s onwards look like bitches. My math might be far off but isn’t a transmissions from the Voyager currently reaching us at a power about six orders of magnitude lower than a pin falling on the ground? And the dishes still catch them. ("In space no one can hear you scream” my ass)