And with 50 year old tech! I do wonder if humanity will get to a point where we can retrieve the spacecraft at some point in the future (cue Star Trek fantasies)
And with 50 year old tech! I do wonder if humanity will get to a point where we can retrieve the spacecraft at some point in the future (cue Star Trek fantasies)
Technically, the receivers need not use 50 years old tech. I am saying that not to be annoying but because I wonder how much that matters.
Indeed, it could have been obsolete tech as of launch. That's typically how it goes.
I believe they meant that the receivers/transmitters on Earth are likely newer than 50 years old. And you're also probably right that the hardware installed on the voyager could be several years older than the launch date of the craft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network
In the Rust compiler, yes. In reality, no. /s
I would prefer they just maintain it as long as possible and maybe deploy a proxy for earth that trails behind it indefinitely once it’s finally out of range. Let’s set an unbreakable record.
They are too busy killing themselves and extracting every dollar from their fellow "human beings".