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Forum: Satellites - Robotic Probes
Topic: NASA's Voyager probes: milestones, updates

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 06-28-2010 10:45 AM NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory release <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="+0">[b]Voyager 2 completes 12,000 days of continuous operations[/b]</font> On June 28, 2010, Voyager 2 will have been operating continuously for 12,000 days since its launch on August 5, 1977. For nearly 33 years, the venerable spacecraft has been returning unprecedented data about the giant outer planets, the properties of the solar wind between and beyond the planets and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar winds in the heliosheath. Having traveled more than 21 billion kilometers on its winding path through the planets toward interstellar space, the spacecraft is now nearly 14 billion kilometers from the sun. Traveling at the speed of light, a signal from the ground takes about 12.8 hours to reach the spacecraft. Voyager 1 will reach this milestone on July 13 after having traveled more than 22 billion kilometers. Voyager 1 is currently more than 17 billion kilometers from the Sun.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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