Nasa’s Voyager-1 sends usable data from deep space | BBC News 

"I didn't hear no bell"

I'm not leaving!

Ah Vygr live long and learn

they jailed the cameraman from fox 7 too😂😂😂. AIPACmake american Communis is real😂

@@ricyman5110 tf are you talking about this is about a space probe

Anymore

I'm 48, so a little bit older than voyager, and some of my hardware doesn't function either. For instance, as of a little over 5 years ago, I no longer have a functional pancreas.

@eamonahern7495 Why?

@@janparchanski9242 because of a glitch in my immune system

But you didnt cost millions and millions of dollars to be made and maintained...

Maybe that's why aliens haven't visited. They think, 'Damn if their PROBES are built like this..."

@@sixstanger00 lmao good one

You sir are the Human of Microbes 🦠

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Nar, Motorola brick, you could drop it in water and it would still work. I finally bought a Motorola smart phone and it is a great phone, has glass screen not plastic and still clear despite dropping it several times.

Interstellar spacecraft have premium subscriptions.

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l But you´ll still be charged 9.99 to unlock all of the data.

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l One day baby, one day

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l Interstellar spacecraft now have Stories! Click here to learn more.

Ha ha ha!

Its like your laptop talking to a simple calculator

68kb is a lot

Happy birthday 😂😂🎉

​​​​@@MrSimonw58the irony of you posting your comment of about a dozen characters in length using a device with at least several GB of memory. That is, our current consumer devices might have about 6 orders of magnitude more memory than voyager. can we take a moment to appreciate a million times more memory than voyager (to play video games etc) is wild 🤯

​@@MrSimonw58I can give a strong argument against this but don't wanna sound like a nerd. 😂 It's hard. Believe us. 😅

Is it from SBI ?

😂 good one ☺️

😂😂😂​@@smrfk

the world if they got rid of OTP🌞

😂This one got me

Mind boggling.

1000 years from now they will make a device, that will reduce that time frame to 1 second

We will likely create a new form of propulsion that allows us to catch up to voyager then we will bring it back and put it in a museum sadly none of us will see that day or it's incredibly likely we won't but I suppose never say never

@@YellowKurt Speed of light is a constant cop on interstellar highway… Even at maximum light speed, Voyager 1 would take 4 years to reach to Proxima - our nearest neighbouring star. But I get what you mean: we may find ways to built a device that will zoom past Voyager 1 to reach destination before it.

Let's hope humans will not destroy the civilization in the next 100 years first​@@YellowKurt

Oh, I assure you that FORTRAN IV was for ground data systems, most of which were long ago "updated" to Sun/SPARC/Solaris platforms (FORTRAN 77). Onboard is purely assembly for the custom processors.

I also read the same thing in other video but for assembly coding language.

@@Space-Audio So Voyerger is updated in ...... Fortran 5 ... they havent been doing system updates to java mate

I doubt it's written in Fortran. Probably it's BAL or direct machine language. They want every bit to count.

They lying

That's intentional though

Well if you paid 200 million dollars and made it the size of a small car I bet you could get your iPhone to last longer

Radioactive batteries man

Planned obsolescence.

If it was made by apple it would have received a terminal update years ago.

Like the music back then, the chirps are coming back, melodiously, crystal clear.

@ForbiddenPlanetB That is just so cool.

@@rustshoo5068 It's really not what could _ever_ be described as crystal clear. I'd probably describe it more like a vanishing whisper in black static. The bitrate has dropped to around 0.16k/sec and the signal heard on Earth comes in at less than a trillionth of a watt in strength. At present only the largest dishes of the Deep Space Network are capable of catching the signal at all and even they frequently don't get all the data first time around due to it being broken up by the background static of the cosmos. Thankfully Voyager 1 constantly repeats its data. Voyager's transmissions also require digital processing to enhance the signal to noise ratio in order to make it useful. The technology to do that didn't even exist when Voyager was launched and its creators probably didn't expect the probe's signals to remain detectable in the 2020s.

@@CountScarlioniI live about 20km from one of these dishes. It sits in an empty field. There are signs on the footpaths saying “beware of snakes”. And inside there is a large screen which lists all the probes and missions they communicate with and what time of day. It even tells you what they are talking to at that very moment. Sometimes it’s the Mars Rovers and orbiters, but it could be Juno and Jupiter, or New Horizons and Pluto. 9pm tonight it will be talking to Voyager 2 - that’s 20.4 billion km away. It’s quite a bizarre feeling looking out the window at the 64m dish and knowing it’s talking to something outside our solar system…… Wish they did something about the snakes though.

What a great time to be alive !!!

Just imagine that’s what it actually was this whole time that would be a great premise for a movie.

We know it wasn’t alien signals. The signal consisted of all zeroes, i.e. no data at all.

@@Hobbes746 I see we have an expert on alien translation!

I am an expert. Black holes are really cloaking devices. Aliens are just waiting for global warming to boil us off the Planet before they visit

@@artofsam NANU NANU. 🖖🏻

Well, whippersnapper, I was in college when it launched, but also thought it was great.

It's not working.. but the signal it have send years back have travelled all this year and reached now that's it...

Happy birthday when it arrives!

I was born in 1978 so I was -1 years old.

Your moms shock waves data everytime she gets out of bed.

@@NightElveee HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA THATS A REAL KNEE SLAPPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM DYING OF LAUGHTER YOU'RE SO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

@@fargoth391 best commend i have seen

@@fargoth391never use these emojis again

@@5655nasirever

Which means that it technically isn't in interstellar space yet and won't be until it reaches the outer edge of the Oort cloud, which will happen in approximately a great many thousands of years after we'll all be dead.

How a star from another galaxy is only 1 ly away😂

@@zikkicharade You don't have good reading skills.... Read it again.

@@bwhog it’s in the interstellar medium AFAIK, which counts as “interstellar space” as it is different from the interplanetary medium. But like you said, it hasn’t really left the solar system per-se

@@mistertagnanHopefully we won't have to wait that long and, within 100 years, we'll simply be able to simply fly out and go get it and stick it in a museum. 😜

Live long and prosper!😉

That was actually Voyager 6...which doesn't exist..

Yet lol ​@@panaderofilms

It's just going lol

@@eastofwarden currently everywhere it is going, nobody else has gone before....

I just finished episode 5 tonight.

waste of key fob or memory?????

Apollo computers were silly small too. Those guys were truly amazing! 🎉🎉. Doing so much with so little.

Well yes, but Voyager's memory has to withstand cosmic rays.

Pretty sure a keyfob has no RAM. What it has is ROM. And a very small amount, smaller than 68kB. More like 4kB.

@@espressomatici read that they range from 4kb to 100kb and some even have a few mbs

Yes, there is “waste” of money because not every scientific research leads to practical applications. BUT if you would STOP all scientific researches because statistically most of them do not bring improvements in our lives, then there would NEVER be any future improvement…. You can’t tell in advance which research will bring practical results. This is the part that these people complaining about “waste of money” do not understand. (And the fact that knowing more about our surroundings tell us more about ourselves too.)

@@Jean-PierreGrenier-yl3wp Well said!

NASA hides alot of information too. They know about UFO's and everytime it comes on camera they cut the feed "due to technical difficulties".

we should spend that money on the military

@@JamesAllen-mv4bj There is plenty of money to go around. We don't need uneducated morons like t-rump telling people that science is not important

🤭🤭🤭

Dr Jen Millard is great! You can hear more of her on the Awesome Astronomy podcast

The plastic dino is made from Real Dino matter.

Even Harry Potter books are there

@@JaSon-wc4pn plastic is made from trees and other vegetation that was not broken down by bacteria. I believe most oil predates dinosaurs by a few hundred million years. And remember, The T-Rex was closer in time to us humans now, than they were to the Stegosaurus. So we are talking MASSIVE timeframes..

Better than having a dildo!!!!

We know more than them now. But yeah. Still cutting edge 😅

Yeah, and then forgot where he put it. 😂

tell me you're projecting your personal frustrations without telling me you're projecting your personal frustrations.

There's nothing extraordinary about it. Just a compressor converting uranium decay and using a stupid dish to beam numbers to earth

Legend has it grandad landed in a tincan on the moon

I was 16.. seems so surreal so many decades have gone by. I'm very proud of the Voyagers and glad they can at least get some contact with one of them.

I was dead yet.

😂

the ultimate debugging in production engineering.

Software engineering is not impressive

​@@Karuska22pssounds like you are jealous you don't know anything about it.

@@N1ckZ it's really not impressive. It's so mainstream now

Fortran 5

That's what you call a job for life at this point 😂

To be honest, they tried it once a few years ago to solve another problem.

Get out 😐👉

😂👍

The Russians tried that with the Phobos probe, and it didn't end well for them.

@@Trey4x4 🤣😂

happend in star trek 1

Also sort of happened in Oblivion.

Which race of aliens?

@@Wtfisahandle344 hopefully not the Borg

Talking about Vger.

It's static memory. Not the same thing.

@@Livinghighandwisestill

That’s probably close to the speed of light, honestly. Which would make sense for electromagnetic waves of data, which aren’t a tangible object.

Some people think so. They are usually really knowledgeable people 😉 /s

Acquaintances of mine can't seem to grasp the significance until I use this analogy: Imagine being able to see or detect a lit candle from 1K miles/1.61K km away.

Oh you are too generous 😂 Edit: damn autocorrect

We already have them in the UK, Islamist's

@@roberts7961 "Islamist's" is that right, we also have a lot of native people are thick as shit, and they just as bad, I say kick you the fuck out and the UK will be golden.

What will they think of us?

a generous number lol

Easier to replace dead computer rather than a dead person.

52 years (last human on the moon was during Apollo 17 in December 1972). (but yep, still not a great record)

After someone dies on the moon, we'll never look at it the same way again.

We never sent men onto the moon

​@@wattsmichaelestfu the adults are talking

It would then sell Voyagers data to the highest bidder

i call bs do th math even at lightspeed!

In general, "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" had no sense of scale. (That's a problem with many science fiction writers.) 22.5 hours is just about right for that distance.

​@@jessemazo4791 It's exactly 22.5 light-hours away.

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l don't bother with flerfers

@@user-lv7ph7hs7l the can talk 22 light hours away but cant give an expalnation why were banned form th lunar surface! i smell bullshit and you guys are goin gback for seconds!

Imagine voyager sends back: DO NOT ANSWER!!! DO NOT ANSWER!!! DO NOT ANSWER!!!

@@syntheticsandwich190 yo i got chills

@@causticchan4617 You need to watch last stand (ai short film) exactly this happens!

​@@syntheticsandwich190let's hope that this isn't received by a scientist who had lost all faith in humanity

They fixed the bugs? ;)

several sci-fi stories have used the Voyager probes in their plot: one of the Star Trek movies from the 1980s comes to mind.

That is the plot of the first Star Trek movie. Although the probe is called Voyager 6.

@@cressmanfoster V-GER, I remembered that as I read your comment. That would be a pretty awesome turn of events, an advanced race finding it and upgrading it to get back here.

They've popped up in several scifi stories being encountered by aliens. The first Star Trek movie being the most notable example. However aliens will never find the Voyager probes. The real fate of Voyager 1 is to end up in the Smithsonian. In the coming centuries, nuclear propulsion technologies will make their way to space, and humans will rapidly establish manned and/or robotic outposts across the solar system using ships that accelerate at a constant 1G velocity. Such ships would be so fast that they would be able to journey out to Voyager 1's location in a few weeks. Some space-archaeologists will decide to have the Voyagers, and many other ancient space relics collected, brought back and put on museum pedestals.

Just to rain on this parade: Both spacecraft are slowly being eroded away by high-velocity impacts with micron-sized (think smoke) dust. Our best measurements indicate about one such impact per hour which produces a tiny divot and a little plasma explosion we detect with the PWS instrument. If that rate were to persist, there wouldn't be much of anything left in several million years.

Even in space, they sometimes have to turn things off and then back on again!

That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Just because we could launch satellites into space, doesn't mean we could land humans onto the moon. The logistics of such a task is so immense and not even comparable to launching a satellite. Yet you have just compared it.

they should now easily land man on the moon using modern tech and materials. Strange that no country is trying to do it.

@@aykutlondon4784 Now that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard!

@@geoffmower8729 how so? I explained why i said what I said. You didn't. That's the difference. I never actually said that we didn't land humans on the moon. I said there's a massive difference between launching a satellite into deep space and launching a rocket with people and a moon lander onboard and it successfully landing. Does your small IQ brain think those two things are logistically the same thing? Who knows what you think, because you haven't bothered to explain your comment.

Black Bolt is on the moon, I wouldn’t go back neither

Wouldn't make a difference. They would already know our location through the decades' worth of the radio signals we've been chucking out, and if they're clever enough to make it to Voyager 1 or 2, one more light day to earth would be a blip.

To be fair, the golden record was mostly for us Earthlings. If we're really really lucky, our technology will advance quickly enough to catch up with the Voyagers and return them to museums. Or, maybe, they'll be the most sought-after space salvage of all time. (I'll be passing trajectory data on to my progeny. ;-) )

It will take Voyager 1 16700 years to reach Proxima the closest star from earth. And we are quite certain there are no aliens over there. So we are safe. Also, a fun fact is that scientists expect Voyager 1 to survive earth by at least a trillion years. So it might be one of the only trace of our existence for an incredibly long time.

Right like Voyager baby you on your own. By time they come, I hope I’m light years decEASED.

Science return, human knowledge return, is more than economic return.

Not all progress is measured in dollars.

You really wonder? 🤑

To make you buy new ones. Mercedes once almost went bankrupt because their cars wouldn't break down and no-one bought a new one because of that.

Because spacecraft have dead-simple, potato-quality computers and longevity is the absolute biggest concern in mission design (because you can’t fix it).

cuz u a bot

Amazingly insulting to the team of extremely talented engineers who have dedicated most of their lives to keeping this spacecraft alive

@@alt8791 well said

Man you gotta get up and get it yourself cuz those calories ain’t gonna burn themselves lol

Cos it’s all a lie my man

The voyagers relied on gravity assists from the outer planets based on certain alignments. Chances for another Grand Tour using similar planetary alignments won't happen until at least 2150. And by that point tech will have advanced significantly. The only other option is to burn way more fuel than anything else before and that's just not feasible.

They've chucked that out too with all the previous knowledge of the moon landings 😂 Just chucked in the bin.

@@inventor121 we have other means of accelerating craft which are feasible. Laser assisted solar sails for example as proposed for the solar gravitational lense project and breakthrough slingshot.

@@inventor121 Also, there have been quite a few missions of similar impact to the Voyagers. The Mars rovers for example, or Osiris Rex, the asteroid booping sample return mission, or the James Webb Space Telescope. There's been no shortage of more modern Voyager equivalents.

How would that even make the slightest bit of sense? Data about space solving all the problems in the world?

Voyager 1 already tried its best to do that. Look up "the pale blue dot."

It's a nice change from the usual news. So for you and me and some other people it already did.

@@RedFail1-1the way people live their lives still in 2024.. and the beliefs they have.. imagine what a groundbreaking discovery from space or news of a highly intelligent species would do. We still fight with each other right here on earth about money and about who’s cult is better

@@cicakaki6587 Our governments would never tell us. They profit off our disfunction.

Let's just all hope that they're not an invading species and they figure out where it came from. Let's also hope that none of the sounds on that golden disk are considered insults in their language...

​@@DK-gy7ll Easy to figure out since there is a star map of earth's location in there too.

In the grand scheme of things this object just travelled a distance let’s say 1 schoolbus from your home if we think our universe as the size of our entire galaxy so there’s very little chance of detecting life I think 🤔

@@DK-gy7ll We've been sending a pretty much constant "Hi, we're here !" signal out into the universe in every direction _at the speed of light_ for about a hundred years. So one golden record that's vanishingly unlikely to ever be found is the very least of our problems in that regard.

That is an interesting concept.

Hope its not some shitty future where the rich control everything. Some rich asshat with the golden disk on a plaque on the wall of his space yacht.

That’s because the data equivalent of 5,125,000,000,000,000 Voyagers is transmitted around earth EVERY DAY. Pretty reliable I’d say.

@@mbbb9244 it also helps that there is basically nothing in between Voyager and Earth, whereas there is an entire Earth in the way between opposite sides of the Earth

I would agree, but then I remember how humongous the land antennas we got for those space craft are, then how they are spread in specific regions of the planet in diameter and range, and then how it’s specifically calculated to shoot a certain signal in a specific direction and frequency, then how it’s different how a GPS satellite would have to scatter amongst many devices compare to- 💥

just because mass produced microcontrollers weren't (broadly) around, doesn't mean there were no electronics!

Why not? God knows we need all the help we can get...

It's a very small needle in a very large haystack. You should be much more concerned with our electromagnetic emissions if you are worried about aliens locating us, as they are multi directional and travel at significantly faster speeds and still allow the source to be located, although they do get weaker the further they travel as per the inverse square law.

Aliens have no reason to fight us, if they can travel between planetary systems, we aren't a threat and if they needed resources, they'd rather take it from a planet with no life on it

46 years in space and dodged all thoses meteors! Stop it! Get some help!

By the time Voyager 2 even launched, it was already several decades too late to stop that problem. We've been venting information into space since at least 1936.

Nope. Voyager 1 failed because one of the memory chips in one of its computers malfunctioned. This is not a software issue.

@@Hobbes746 the reporter in the video just explained that the chips weren’t routing properly. The solution was software based. But the issue itself was hardware related. Did you even listen to the video?

It is hard to maintain stuff, I know, the old engineers I worked with left poor notebooks with many things missing.

What are you even talking about? The communication failed last November because of a hardware issue. And then they fixed the hardware problem with a software patch. Before November 2023 Voyager had worked for 40 years flawlessly. .

@@user-oy3mg6jh1f No amount of software maintenance can prevent electronic circuits from failing. You were claiming Voyager’s problem was due to an issue in the software that NASA had failed to spot for “decades”, which is not at all the case.

Even if it does go boom SpaceX says it's a success.

​@@mbrackevaYeah. It bugs me that that philosophy is now the "in thing." It would have been excusable in the 40s & 50s, but not in the 21st century.

Failures of LVs during testing are extremely common and expected. Thor and Atlas failed many, many times when they were first being made, and now they’re the basis for some of the most launched LVs ever Failure with crew is not an option, failure during tests is preferable to complete success. Better to fail frequently during testing and discover problems, than to let a potentially lethal problem slip through the cracks as it awaits the day it claims its first victim

I'm no fan of Elon Musk as a human but SpaceX's _established_ launch vehicles have a success rate comparable to any on the planet. Sure, their _tests of prototypes_ often end in explosions. That's _why_ you test. Prototype rockets are basically _going_ to explode, the point is what you learn as a result.

@@anonymes2884 Do you actually have any inside numbers on this? Or do you base yourself on popular news? I'm under the impression this is a very naive statement.