If it's truly dead, it's a sad day for humanity. The farthest reaches into space we've ever been, and possibly ever will be. It'll just be a lonely probe wondering the cosmos, unable to phone home.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a miracle it lasted as long as it did.

[–] SpaceNoodle 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's NASA engineering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still very impressive regardless of who did it. Its original mission plan was for a little over 3 years but it worked for 46 years!

[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

14-15x operational plan isn't unheard of. The Mars Ingenuity helicopter outperformed by that much as well.

Done right, engineering does very much resemble magic.

[–] Anticorp 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If that's the farthest we ever go, then we're a sad pathetic species that peaked in 1977.

[–] Dkarma 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok but that's just like your opinion, man.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 10 months ago

[–] NocturnalMorning 0 points 10 months ago

I mean maybe, there are limitations to physics. We aren't talking science fiction here. The universe is truly much more vast than we think it is, and galaxies are all flying away from eachother. We'd be lucky if we ever even send a message to the next closest star system to ours.

[–] Olhonestjim 4 points 10 months ago

Voyager 1 is not dead. It is only sleeping as it enters the final stage of its 1.5 billion year mission.