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space15 days ago•12 min saved

Ann Druyan’s Brainwaves Echo Across the Cosmos on Voyager’s Golden Record

The Voyager Golden Record includes an hour-long recording of Ann Druyan’s brainwaves and heartbeat, compressed into a one-minute track created in 1977 to guide thoughts about Earth’s history, civilization, and her love for Carl Sagan. Druyan intended it as a private meditation that could hint at inner life to any future listener, perhaps alien; today, neuroscience would say such thoughts are unreadable without the full context. The piece frames a hopeful, human, interior moment encoded for interstellar travel as Voyager 1 and 2 sail onward through interstellar space.

via Space Daily|

#ann-druyan #brainwaves #eeg

space18 days ago•9 min saved

Voyager's interstellar greeting shifts from nudity to silhouette

NASA's Voyager Golden Record team, led by Carl Sagan, briefly considered including a nude photograph of a man and a pregnant woman, but public backlash over the nude Pioneer plaque led to a silhouette image instead—a pure black outline showing a pregnant silhouette with the fetus visible inside, while a separate vertebrate-evolution diagram was approved. The record, carrying greetings, sounds, and images, was designed to endure for millions of years as humanity's interstellar message, but the nude depiction was ultimately rejected.

via Space Daily|

#carl-sagan #interstellar-message #pioneer-plaque

space21 days ago•10 min saved

Voyager Golden Record Doubles as a Billion-Year Time Capsule

The Voyager Golden Record on each spacecraft carries two built-in clocks—a tiny uranium-238 sample on the cover to date its age by radioactive decay, and a pulsar map to date it via the slowdowns of 14 pulsars—providing two independent ways to estimate how long the record has drifted and offering redundancy on a timescale of hundreds of millions to billions of years.

via Space Daily|

#pulsars #space #timekeeping

space27 days ago•8 min saved

Voyager’s legacy code still steers interstellar ships as aging engineers guard fading memory

NASA continues to run the Voyager probes with 1970s assembly-language software on purpose-built hardware, with total onboard memory around 64–70 KB. The operating team is small and aging, and much original documentation remains lost or scattered on paper, making it difficult to replace the few engineers who truly understand the code. The real challenge is preserving institutional memory and expertise as generations of specialists retire, not merely deciphering unreadable code, even as Voyager data transmission could continue into the mid-2030s.

via Space Daily|

#assembly-language #documentation #legacy-code

space1 month ago•6 min saved

Voyager's 'Big Bang' Power Fix Could Extend Deep-Space Mission into the 2030s

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 may keep transmitting deep-space data into the 2030s thanks to a high-risk power-management maneuver nicknamed the 'Big Bang' that will disable three instruments to prevent fuel-line freezing and replace them with new devices to save about 10 watts. Testing on Voyager 2 in May and June 2026, followed by Voyager 1, aims to extend instrument life by roughly a year as power from aging RTGs dwindles; the goal remains to reach about 200 astronomical units by around 2035, though the probes will continue to lose capability as power declines and the transmitter consumes most of the remaining power.

via The Daily Galaxy|

#interstellar #nasa #power-management

space2 months ago•80 min saved

NASA targets nuclear-electric propulsion with SR-1 Freedom, rebooting Voyager-era power talk

NASA is pursuing Space Reactor-1 Freedom, a 20-kilowatt fission reactor to power a nuclear-electric propulsion system for an interplanetary mission planned for 2028; the NEP approach would use reactor-generated electricity to run an ion engine, a shift from RTGs that have powered Voyager for decades. The project sits in NASA's long history of space nuclear power (SNAP, SNAP-10A, DRACO) with safety and regulatory hurdles still in play; Voyager probes remain RTG-powered and active.

via Space|

#interplanetary-spacecraft #nasa #nuclear-propulsion

entertainment3 months ago•12 min saved

Voyager: Across the Unknown Turns Nostalgia into a Brutal Delta Quadrant Challenge

Star Trek Voyager: Across the Unknown is a what-if survival-strategy game that tasks you with guiding Voyager home from the Delta Quadrant by balancing resource management (deuterium, dilithium, duranium, tritanium, food), ship deck-building, and crew morale across procedurally generated sectors. Combat is tactical but punishing, success on away missions depends on fixed four-person lineups and skill checks, and exploration is anchored by cinematic cutscenes and voiced logs from Tim Russ and Robert Duncan McNeill. It’s a nostalgic love letter to Voyager for fans, offered at a modest price with demos on all platforms, though casual players may want a simpler mode to enjoy the ‘what-if’ premise.

via TrekMovie.com|

#delta-quadrant #entertainment #star-trek

gaming3 months ago•5 min saved

Voyager Survival RPG Stirs Nostalgia, Delivers Steady Strategy

Daedalic's Star Trek: Voyager – Across the Unknown lands on Steam as a survival/strategy RPG that fuses ship management, away missions, and dialogue choices with a nostalgic nod to the Voyager era. It forgoes full voice acting in favor of text-driven moments, and while the core loop—scanning, base-building, and autobattles—feels familiar and not groundbreaking, fans may be charmed by the vibe and familiar cast, awaiting a fuller release.

via Rock Paper Shotgun|

#across-the-unknown #daedalic-entertainment #gaming

science5 months ago•4 min saved

Voyager Encounters Unexpected 50,000 Kelvin Boundary at Solar System's Edge

NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft have detected a hot, energetic boundary at the edge of our solar system called the heliopause, where temperatures spike to 30,000-50,000 Kelvin, marking the transition from solar to interstellar space. The findings challenge previous assumptions about the magnetic field and permeability of this boundary, providing new insights into how our solar system interacts with the galaxy.

via The Daily Galaxy|

#heliopause #heliosphere #interstellar-space

science5 months ago•5 min saved

Exploring the Cosmos with 3I/ATLAS

The article discusses the potential of interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS as faster carriers of human-made messages and artifacts into interstellar space, comparing them to the Voyager spacecraft, and explores the possibilities of detecting extraterrestrial technological imprints on such objects, emphasizing their significance for interstellar archaeology and future space missions.

via Avi Loeb – Medium|

#3iatlas #extraterrestrial-communication #interstellar-archaeology

science7 months ago•2 min saved

NASA's Voyager Encounters a Fiery Barrier at the Solar System's Edge

NASA's Voyager 1 has encountered a 'wall of fire' at the edge of the Solar System, a hot zone near the heliopause, which marks the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space. Data from Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reveal that beyond this boundary, magnetic fields are aligned parallel to those inside the heliosphere, providing new insights into the nature of this frontier.

via Dagens.com|

#heliopause #interstellar-space #magnetic-fields

science7 months ago•3 min saved

Voyager Discovers Hot 'Wall' at Solar System's Edge Linked to Interstellar Mysteries

NASA's Voyager spacecraft have discovered a blazing 'wall of fire' at the edge of the solar system, a boundary where solar wind meets interstellar space, with temperatures reaching up to 50,000 Kelvin, providing new insights into the solar system's boundary and its dynamic nature.

via The Daily Galaxy|

#cosmic-boundary #heliopause #interstellar-space

science7 months ago•3 min saved

NASA's Voyager Detects Hot 'Wall' at Solar System's Edge Linked to 1977 Wow! Signal

NASA's Voyager spacecraft discovered a 'wall of fire' at the edge of the solar system, with temperatures between 30,000 and 50,000 Kelvin, as they crossed the heliopause, marking the boundary where the solar wind meets interstellar space. Despite the extreme temperatures, the probes survived due to the sparse particle environment, providing valuable data about the solar system's outer limits and magnetic field alignment beyond the heliosphere.

via IFLScience|

#heliopause #interstellar-space #science

science8 months ago•2 min saved

NASA Voyagers to Suffer 26% Budget Reduction

NASA's Voyager mission, launched nearly 50 years ago, faces a 26% budget cut amid government shutdown concerns, threatening its ongoing scientific operations and affecting other missions like Juno, with fears of job losses and mission deactivation.

via theregister.com|

#budget-cuts #jpl #nasa

science9 months ago•0 min saved

NASA's Voyager Survives 50,000°C Firewall at Solar System's Edge

The article discusses the misconception of a 50,000°C 'firewall' in space, explaining through NASA's Voyager data that it is not a solid wall but a filter, providing insights into space phenomena.

via WION|

#firewall #nasa #science