Voyager Spacecraft Hardware |
Voyager Spacecraft Hardware |
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Jan 3 2006, 06:37 PM
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Some questions on the basic hardware of the Voyager spacecraft:
1. From which material was the decahedral space bus made ( Aluminium ? ) 2. Exact weight of the spacecraft - literature gives numbers between 792 and 825 kilograms ? Some additional questions: 1. The Deep Space Network of worldwide antenna sites wasn't sufficient to collect the faint signal of the distant spacecraft once beyond Saturn ... I know that the twenty-seven 25-meter steerable radio antennes of the Very Large Array in New Mexico were linked with DSN ... when was this done exactly? ( 1989 Neptune encounter only ? ) 2. What is the actual telecommunications time-lag 1-way to Earth (after having passed the bow-shock ) |
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Sep 30 2010, 03:53 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
A NASA film called "Project Voyager" can also be found on the FootageVault website:
http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006211 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006212 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006213 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006214 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006215 Of interest is the primitive animation of a "possible" encounter with Uranus, where the rings are noticeably absent, given that they had yet to be discovered at the time this documentary was produced! -------------------- |
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