Talk:Voyager program

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Hmmm very nice to get a lot of details... But I don't know a fifth of all the three letter abreviations used... I guess space-program insiders might be familiar with them. I suggest someone explains them so that the rest of humanity can better understand all the nice techno details outlined in the text.

129.241.139.73 23:45, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Yes, we need to get some Wiki links for some of those TLAs. I would especially like to know what UVS is. - Eisnel 00:10, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Done! :) though this article needs much MUCH more work. The Voyager missions did a huge amount of science and this page could easily be quadrupled in size....

Contents 1 Major cleanup of this page plus Voyager 1 and 2 pages 2 the most widely-separated manmade objects 3 New Horizons 4 Soviet equivalents 5 How does information from it reach earth? 6 How far way is it from the next solar system?

[edit] Major cleanup of this page plus Voyager 1 and 2 pages

I've taken these pages to stub status, they're wikified.

They need more science results. I recommend putting Jupiter and Saturn results/discoveries on this page, with the corresponding sections in Voyager 1 and 2 pages referring here.

I also recommend putting Uranus and Neptune discoveries in this same Results/Discoveries section, but noting that this is only from Voyager 2, and having some duplication in the Voyager 2 entry. JamesHoadley 03:23, 8 February 2005

Recommend adding additional details about trajectory, speed (initial and final), final intersteller destination and time to reach. Some info here:

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0225.shtmlJoema 19:27, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

OK, I guess that can go at the end of the Voy 1 and Voy 2 articles. JamesHoadley 21:35, 7 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] the most widely-separated manmade objects

"Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10 are also the most widely-separated manmade objects in the Universe." This is, stricktly, incorrect. Man made satellites and Voyager 1 would be the most widely-seperated. --ProdigySportsman 01:29, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Voyager 1 and Pioneer 10 are proceeding in opposite directions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.110.223 (talk) 19:01, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New Horizons

I believe New Horizons will overtake Voyager 1 in distance from the sun, but I have read it will take about 200 years before they are equidistant.

User: Petroleum

Incorrect : See http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/display.cfm?News_ID=16057

[edit] Soviet equivalents

As I know Soviets never launched their probes further than to Mars ,Venus and Halley comets. But didn't they make any7 plans.Such opportunity as in the late 70-s couldn't pass unnoticied. Does anybody know if they had any conceptions similar to Voyager program? Amakthea computer 16:32, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How does information from it reach earth?

And when will we no longer be able to receive transmissions from it?

Round trip time for information as of 2007:
28.5 Hours Voyager 1
22.5 Hours Voyager 2


The spacecraft will run out of power in 2020 and it seems up to then we should still be able to revive signals.

Taken from a NPR science Friday Podcast : Voyager spacecraft the never ending journey (this is quite informative) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.246.111 (talk) 00:33, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How far way is it from the next solar system?

How far away is Voyager from getting to the next solar system? How long will it take? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.150.5.54 (talk) 03:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC).