Voyager Spacecraft Hardware |
Voyager Spacecraft Hardware |
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
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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Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 3 2006, 08:32 PM
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Thanks, are there any High-resolution Voyager spacecraft images online (BOth NASA-JPL and NASA-KSC only post normal resolution artist impressions of the Voyager hardware )
I only have the NASA-JPL artist impression P-23836A showing Voyager 2 near Uranus, but scanning from a glossy litho doesn't give good results |
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Jan 14 2006, 09:53 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 10 |
[quote=PhilCo126,Jan 3 2006, 08:32 PM]
Thanks, are there any High-resolution Voyager spacecraft images online (BOth NASA-JPL and NASA-KSC only post normal resolution artist impressions of the Voyager hardware ) Not very high res, but I have a couple Voyager mockup 3D images at this page: http://www.donaldedavis.com/PARTS/3DPHOTOS.html I have taken many digital photos of the Von Karman auditorium Voyager spacecraft mockup, let me know what angles you would like and I'll dig them up. Don |
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