Titan
“2014–A.D. 2015 Voyager One flew high above the plane of the ecliptic, that invisible sheet in space which contains the orbits of the major planets of the Solar System.
Voyager was a spindly dragonfly construction, of booms and struts and instrument platforms, and a huge antenna which pointed back at Earth. Built around a compact ten-sided box, it weighed about a ton, and was big enough to fill a small house.
During its long mission, it had visited both the Solar System’s largest planets, Jupi...ter and Saturn. The gravitational fields of those worlds had flung Voyager onward at such a high speed that it had broken the bonds which once tied it to the sun.
Now, Voyager One was racing across space at a million miles per day, heading for the stars.
But in the year 2014, an expected command from Earth did not arrive.
Voyager had been designed to operate during an extended lifetime and at a great distance from Earth, with an hours-long downlink-uplink communications round-trip time. Since contact with the ground would not be continuous, the spacecraft could know if it had lost contact with Earth only if it missed an expected command.MoreLess
Voyager was a spindly dragonfly construction, of booms and struts and instrument platforms, and a huge antenna which pointed back at Earth. Built around a compact ten-sided box, it weighed about a ton, and was big enough to fill a small house.
During its long mission, it had visited both the Solar System’s largest planets, Jupi...ter and Saturn. The gravitational fields of those worlds had flung Voyager onward at such a high speed that it had broken the bonds which once tied it to the sun.
Now, Voyager One was racing across space at a million miles per day, heading for the stars.
But in the year 2014, an expected command from Earth did not arrive.
Voyager had been designed to operate during an extended lifetime and at a great distance from Earth, with an hours-long downlink-uplink communications round-trip time. Since contact with the ground would not be continuous, the spacecraft could know if it had lost contact with Earth only if it missed an expected command.MoreLess
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