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That sure is a neat article EV - thanks for sharing. Odd, they said there was a 59 MB tape onboard in case the spacecraft couldn't communicate with earth, however, I have no idea exactly how they planned to retrieve said tape.
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CommRLock78 wrote:
That sure is a neat article EV - thanks for sharing. Odd, they said there was a 59 MB tape onboard in case the spacecraft couldn't communicate with earth, however, I have no idea exactly how they planned to retrieve said tape.
By radio. It’s for temporary signal loss requiring delayed transmission or retransmission.
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Ahruman wrote:
CommRLock78 wrote:
That sure is a neat article EV - thanks for sharing. Odd, they said there was a 59 MB tape onboard in case the spacecraft couldn't communicate with earth, however, I have no idea exactly how they planned to retrieve said tape.
By radio. It’s for temporary signal loss requiring delayed transmission or retransmission.
Of course, that makes sense - the way that part of the article read it seemed as though it was a backup if all transmission had been lost indefinitely.

I had found a better timeline than this one, but, it is pretty good, since it provides an outline of what they plan to do when the probe reaches interstellar space.

http://www.dmuller.net/spaceflight/miss ... n=voyager1
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Found on: xkcd.com

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Eric Walch wrote:
Found on: xkcd.com
There are some good ones there :D.
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