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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.

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.

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

Found on: xkcd.com

Eric Walch wrote:

Found on: xkcd.com

There are some good ones there .