Twin spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. To accomplish their original two-planet mission of studying Jupiter and Saturn, the spacecraft were built to last five years.
A five year mission I hear you say, to perhaps boldly go . . .
As the mission went on, and with the successful achievement of all its objectives, additional tasks were introduced and as the spacecraft flew across the solar system, remote-control reprogramming was used to endow the Voyagers with greater capabilities than they possessed when they left the Earth.
Their two-planet mission became four. Their five-year lifetimes stretched to 12 and is now near thirty-eight years.
Let's hope your Voyager does as well and goes beyond five years and gets closer to thirty-eight years, perhaps with additional features too!
Roo b Roo
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Twin spacecraft called Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched by NASA in separate months in the summer of 1977 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. To accomplish their original two-planet mission of studying Jupiter and Saturn, the spacecraft were built to last five years.
A five year mission I hear you say, to perhaps boldly go . . .
As the mission went on, and with the successful achievement of all its objectives, additional tasks were introduced and as the spacecraft flew across the solar system, remote-control reprogramming was used to endow the Voyagers with greater capabilities than they possessed when they left the Earth.
Their two-planet mission became four. Their five-year lifetimes stretched to 12 and is now near thirty-eight years.
Let's hope your Voyager does as well and goes beyond five years and gets closer to thirty-eight years, perhaps with additional features too!
Subject: Re: Name change Tue Aug 11, 2015 11:02 am
Bumble wrote:
Voyager also being the name (corrupted to Vega?) that appeared in one of the early Star Trek films.
P.
"V'ger had an extraordinary ability to evolve. It was discovered that the evolution of this once simple probe into a complex, powerful entity began after it was pulled into an anomaly once called a black hole shortly after leaving Earth's solar system.
Voyager 6 emerged from the anomaly in what was believed to have been the far side of the galaxy, and fell into the gravitational field of a planet populated by living machines. These beings found Voyager 6 damaged by its travels, and the identifying plaque attached to the probe's exterior had been burned leaving only the letters V, G, E, and R legible; the inhabitants of the machine planet called the probe V'ger.
These entities found V'ger to be primitive, but of a kindred spirit. They discovered the probe's simple, 20th century programming, "learn all that is learnable and return that knowledge to the creator", and interpreted these instructions literally.
Reconstructed through highly advanced technologies as a vast space-faring artificial organism, V'ger was augmented with a three-dimensional data collection and storing apparatus magnitudes beyond anything previously known to Federation science. Likewise providing it with effectively immeasurable defensive and sensory capabilities, the inhabitants of the machine planet gave V'ger the ability to fulfill its programming in a far more complete fashion than the scientists who originally built and launched the vessel at its core ever imagined."
