It's amazing that 2 space craft built and launched in the 1970s are still flying to this day and maybe working for us another 2 decades. Though, we made this indestructible back then compared to today, like the video says. I'm still waiting for the disturbing and terrifying things that happened to Voyager 1 though. Other than the computer glitch which was rather easily fixed at risk of losing communications forever, there really wasn't anything to fit those word choices.
I'm just curious about how voyager 1 never encountered particles all these years it has travelled through space at supersonic speed. Is that how empty space is? No floating rocks, ice, comets, or meteorite? Just asking...
The statistical odds I think would be IN favor of it colliding with at least a small particle. However, at such speeds, wouldn't the smallest collision be a death blow to Voyager?
@@gregmainer5416 exactly my thoughts too. Colliding with a grain size particle at such speed would mean catastrophe for any part of the probe if not the entire probe.
As Voyager 1 traveled through space, it actually wasn't completely "empty." However, interstellar space is really, really vast and the particles in it are very sparse.
