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, 03:37 PM
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Lord Of The Uranian Rings Group: Members Posts: 798 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
This seems like an appropriate thread to post this in — here are several archive clips showing the Voyager spacecraft in various stages of construction:
http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0001398 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0001399 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0001400 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006097 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006099 http://www.footagevault.com/clip/FTV-0006205 -------------------- |
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