Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program to study the outer Solar System and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. Launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2, Voyager 1 has operated for 44 years as of today, and still communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. Real-time distance and velocity data is provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 153.2 AU (22.9 billion km; 14.2 billion mi) from Earth as of August 5, 2021, it is the most distant man-made object from Earth.
The probe made successful flybys of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's largest moon, Titan. NASA had a choice of either doing a Pluto or Titan flyby, and exploration of the moon took priority because it was known to have a substantial atmosphere. Voyager 1 studied the weather, magnetic fields, and rings of the two planets, and was the first probe to provide detailed images of their moons.
As part of the Voyager program, and like its sister craft Voyager 2, the spacecraft's extended mission is to locate and study the regions and boundaries of the outer heliosphere, and to begin exploring the interstellar medium. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space on August 25, 2012, making it the first spacecraft to do so. Two years later, Voyager 1 began experiencing a third "tsunami wave" of coronal mass ejections from the Sun, that continued to at least December 15, 2014, further confirming that the probe is indeed in interstellar space.
In a further testament to the robustness of Voyager 1, the Voyager team tested the spacecraft's trajectory correction maneuver (TCM) thrusters in late 2017 (the first time these thrusters had been fired since 1980), a project enabling the mission to be extended by two to three years. Voyager 1's extended mission is expected to continue until about 2025, when its radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs) will no longer supply enough electric power to operate its scientific instruments.
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As I traveled :meow-tankie: up and down our great and glorious country, I found myself in a place where the temperature goes up sharply in the day and down at night. This had an effect on my watch. I noticed it was 1/2 minute fast at nightfall, but at dawn it had lost 1/3 minute, making it only 1/6 minute fast.
One morning - May 1 - my watch showed the right time. By what date was it 5 minutes fast?
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Interesting how I, as a teacher who goes completely unarmed, am capable of keeping my cool when a sixteen year old with a foot and a half of height on me gets in my face and tells me to fuck myself, yet a cop with 20 pounds of tactical gear and a gun is considered justified in beating them to death in public.
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bro if you wanna eat the apple flavoured horse paste, like, it's cool. you don't need a made up excuse like "this cures covid". just do you fam, just get fucked on horse paste
Voyager fled our solar system nine years ago. Did it know something we didn't?
I just got a super transphobic Youtube ad pushing tropes about like,
transphobia
men identifying as women to infiltrate domestic violence shelters and commit sexual assault. I looked them up and they support recriminalizing homosexuality and state mandated sterilization for trans people. They're called "Alliance Defending Freedom."
What the actual fuck Youtube, fuck you :trans-dagger:
I know "mu" is a Greek letter but the idea of a covid variant being named after a bunch of death grips fans on 4chan is really funny
So since we brigaded r/wayofthebern on :reddit-logo: with watermarked memes, we had someone with a Bernie inspired username come here with a new account, and do uhh holocaust denial.
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