The Space Thread: Diablo's Home Planet Found

[Eudemon]

Quite amazing to watch history being made as SpaceX successfully launched a used rocket to deliver a payload and then to make it even sweeter, the first section landed back on the drone ship in the Atlantic.

 

Congratulations on quite a monumental achievement to everyone at SpaceX.

 

[Stories]

Up too,

 

there is a news from the "Science" magazine, who's telling about the sound in space can't be longest than 1 or 2 year-light distance,

 

 

so if it's right, then we can't hear some sound of another civilisation in Universe, and no other civilisation can hear us ! :rolleyes: (so all the works about 30-40 years SETI or anothers before was unecessary)

[Ozzmcom]

Up too,

 

there is a news from the "Science" magazine, who's telling about the sound in space can't be longest than 1 or 2 year-light distance,

 

 

so if it's right, then we can't hear some sound of another civilisation in Universe, and no other civilisation can hear us ! :rolleyes: (so all the works about 30-40 years SETI or anothers before was unecessary)

 

 

There is no medium in space in which the sound can travel through. I think you might be confusing radio waves and sound which are completely different phenomenons. Radio waves are a spectrum of light which can be detected via our radio telescopes billions of light years away.

[Ryzza5]

For those wanting to explore a habitable planet in space...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Eudemon]

The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is currently travelling in interstellar space, has managed to fire thrusters that have been dormant since 1980! This, according to NASA, will extend the life of the craft by two to three years.

On Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017, Voyager engineers fired up the four TCM thrusters for the first time in 37 years and tested their ability to orient the spacecraft using 10-millisecond pulses. The team waited eagerly as the test results traveled through space, taking 19 hours and 35 minutes to reach an antenna in Goldstone, California, that is part of NASA's Deep Space Network.

 

Lo and behold, on Wednesday, Nov. 29, they learned the TCM thrusters worked perfectly -- and just as well as the attitude control thrusters.

 

A big well done to the engineers and techs who built this thing. :clap:

 

News | Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

[TIMELESS]

It's pretty amazing that after almost 4 decades and over 13 billion miles it still fired up no problem. Incredible engineering.

[Ozzmcom]

Even the latest extended interstellar mission spacecraft which is the new horizons is 4 km/s slower than the voyager 1 and with the space exploration almost coming into halt after the cold war we will most likely never see any spacecraft get pass voyager 1. Certainly not in our lifetime.

[Ryzza5]

It's incredible enough that we can even communicate that distance, especially considering 5-year old smartphones are considered redundant technology by many.