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Is there anybody out there? Voyager 1 fires up thrusters dormant since 1980 — RT US News

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2017-12-02 13:51:30
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Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

If you had a car sitting in a garage for nearly forty years you’d forgive it for not starting with the first turn of the key. Now imagine it’s 21 billion kilometers from home and you just heard that engine purring from interstellar space.

That's some solid damned engineering.

Source: https://www.rt.com/usa/411722-voyager-thrusters-fire-after-decades/ [rt.com]


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