03/06/2024

NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft is Talking Nonsense

Its friends on earth are worried

The last time Stamatios "Tom" Krimigis saw the Voyager 1 space probe in person, it was the summer of 1977, just before it launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Now Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles away, beyond what many consider to be the edge of the solar system. Yet the on-board instrument Krimigis is in charge of is still going strong.

"I am the most surprised person in the world," said Krimigis — after all, the spacecraft's original mission to Jupiter and Saturn was only supposed to last about four years.

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