Voyager 1: How We Lost Contact... And How we Might Get It Back

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3 ай бұрын

Join us on an interstellar journey with Voyager 1, humanity's aging space envoy facing a critical communication crisis. Can NASA revive it before it's lost to the cosmos forever?

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@nickgordon9454 2 ай бұрын

Please don’t kill this channel. I love it.

@March-of-Time 2 ай бұрын

I'm with you on that.

@Silverhornet81 2 ай бұрын

@nickysturzu1290 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, me too

@evalevy2909 2 ай бұрын

Why would they kill it?

@ImWearingPantsNow 2 ай бұрын

Agreed. It's out of this world! Ok, I'll leave now.

@Decrepit_biker 2 ай бұрын

Crazy to think that Voyager will be 1 light day away from Earth sometime in October 2026, just a couple of months or so before I turn 50. It left earth when I was just 10 months old....... it's been travelling more or less my entire life at around 17km (11 miles) every second (61,500km/h) and has travelled a little less than 1/365th of a light year..... space is really big folks.

@ProgNoizesB 2 ай бұрын

who cares

@Piznick64 2 ай бұрын

@@ProgNoizesBfake troll

@reedr7142 2 ай бұрын

And light is really fast.

@aidenbailey2402 2 ай бұрын

Go watch Homemade Documentaries video on Voyager. Top class

@itzyuzuruclips 2 ай бұрын

@@ProgNoizesBeveryone except u

@blueblue4083 2 ай бұрын

Voyager 1 is a testament to humanities perseverance and our desire for knowledge.

@tylerchrist3249 2 ай бұрын

I'd like to also add that this is a testament to our technological development of the last 50 years and also to our ability to overcome our own societal differences here on Earth to work towards a common goal that is greater than any one nation's motivations.

@manoz6194 2 ай бұрын

@@tylerchrist3249 stealing German scientists isn't the way for going about this though

@tylerchrist3249 2 ай бұрын

@manoz6194 I'm going to counter your thought in 2 statements: 1) you're about 80 years late for the ethical side of the argument, and 2) if we didn't use them, somebody else was and I defy anyone to tell me that nations like Russia, the UK, or even France, Italy, or Spain wouldn't have done the exact same or didn't do the exact same in some capacity. Lol

@manoz6194 2 ай бұрын

@@tylerchrist3249 The ethics are still relevent because the lies are still being told to this day and people being put in prison or outcast for exposing the truth about it. Sure the other nations could have stolen them but science is nothing without the right leadership and I wouldn't call the leadership of the US "honorable". Neither the other countries for that matter, especially the UK and Russia.

@user-ri5fe7ti6i 2 ай бұрын

And yet, we have people here who are fighting over who has the better imaginary friend.

@charliehunter9257 2 ай бұрын

Also, Simon and/or Whistlerverse crew... I don't know where these rumors of killing the Astrographics channel came from, but please, please don't. I know you've said in Brainblaze and other channels how much you actually enjoy these topics. Maybe some of us Space nerds are not as... comment-frenzied as viewers are on stuff like Brain Blaze of the Casual Criminalist... but you do have one of the best Space Infotainment channels on KZfaq. Don't axe it. If you have to reduce the number of videos you do, that's fine. We understand. You don't have enough Simon clones to do this many channels. But please make it work out somehow. I have the same message for you as I do for the Voyagers... keep on Truckin'.

@connissia 2 ай бұрын

He mentioned during today's members-only Brain Blaze stream that this channel is doing fine and he has no plans of canning it.

@bagsmohess 2 ай бұрын

He keeps forgetting to plug this channel and is befuddled that it isn't picking up enough traction. Simon isn't very bright.

@charliehunter9257 2 ай бұрын

I know it's silly, but I love the Voyagers. I've a lot of hope for humanity and these lovely little machines have done a lot for us back on our little blue dot. Keep on trucking little probes.

@eadweard. 2 ай бұрын

It's not silly.

@jokerace8227 2 ай бұрын

It is actually quite a testament to the skills of the engineers who put the Voyagers together that either are still functional so far beyond their intended missions, especially with dwindling power supplies, and that Inverse Square Law thing about their transmission power to distance from us.

@dahleno2014 2 ай бұрын

She’ll be back in a few centuries with quite the upgrade and a slightly new name, V’ger (Star Trek reference for those who don’t know)

@windowboy 2 ай бұрын

Yes. I remember. I’m waiting for it haha

@untouchable360x 2 ай бұрын

To become one with its creator.

@user-bo4jy5ud6l 2 ай бұрын

or destroyed by a bird of prey...

@js100serch 2 ай бұрын

Was there a story or episode about that?. Because I've been imagining a story about the Voyager returning back to earth. I would like to see that episode.

@anomalyfox5186 2 ай бұрын

@@js100serchIt was in the Motion Picture.

@cynthiana8328 2 ай бұрын

If nothing else, Voyager 1&2 are a testament to Humanity’s existence.

@CyberNut930 2 ай бұрын

They, along with the the older probes will in all probability be the only proof out there in the galaxy that we ever existed one day in the future. I find comfort in the fact that those golden disks are out there and regardless of our fate those could potentially, however unlikely it may be, tell some future species that we were here. We chucked a message in a bottle into the largest ocean possible now let’s hope some day in the far flung future that something out there will appreciate it and appreciate the fact that they are not alone and that another species, at least for a time, lived and dreamed big.

@nickhagen6175 2 ай бұрын

Best science channel around. One of the few not polluted with bs and filter

@juaneer 2 ай бұрын

Informative yes, but Simon is not actually doing any science here.

@julianaylor4351 2 ай бұрын

That either probe has lasted so long, it's amazing that Voyager 1 still going, at all. In a way these machines are similar to fridges and freezers that are still going, long after they shouldn't or even a vintage car or plane or train that still works. So given that the two probes are in a dangerous environment, deep space, it's a miracle that only one Voyager has gone wrong.

@MusicalRaichu 2 ай бұрын

A house I lived in for 13 years had an old light bulb in the laundry that I never needed to change while I was there.

@julianaylor4351 2 ай бұрын

@@MusicalRaichu I have a larder fridge and a chest freezer I inherited from my mother, both of which date back to the late eighties.

@allisonfisher9304 2 ай бұрын

You, Anton Petrov, and Astrum are my favorite science channels, keep it up!!🙌🙌🌟🌟

@crakkbone8473 2 ай бұрын

He’s not really a science channel, he’s just fact boy ❤ He doesn’t actually understand much of what he’s saying.

@mattiemathis9549 2 ай бұрын

As a person a few years older than voyager 1, I am continually amazed at how long they’ve lasted and the data collected from them. I remember the Saturn pictures as a kid and I remember them saying how long it would be before the next pictures, if it survived. I remember thinking, there’s no way I’ll still be alive to see that. 😂 Seeing Pluto, after it had been downgraded, was exhilarating! I understand the technology that they used in Voyager. I understand that when I became a legal adult, that technology was obsolete. I think I’m going to sit down with my granddaughter and show her some pictures. And maybe pull out that old Casio calculator watch. 😂 It will be a sad day when the voyagers are no longer able to communicate or vice verse. But I am convinced that back in the day, they made things that lasted.

@davidflint9883 2 ай бұрын

Yay, more space stuff! I do like this

@55Reever 2 ай бұрын

Voyager 1 and 2 have more than accomplished their expectations. Bravo JPL.

@kevinmcqueenie7420 2 ай бұрын

Really hope this channel finds a way to gain traction. Warographics did it by providing a clear-eyed look at current world conflict and covering lesser known news about wars ongoing or brewing without bias. Harder to do that here, but it's a clear passion for Simon and the team and I hope they find a way.

@charleymurphy2794 2 ай бұрын

Simon should fly out there and make a podcast for 82 years catching up with voyager 1

@JinX-so5yv 2 ай бұрын

Send the one from Brain Blaze,leave this Simon here.

@ProgNoizesB 2 ай бұрын

He doesn't get very far tbh

@mikeygallos5000 2 ай бұрын

Sad will be the day when Voyager 1 stops communicating with us. Sadder will be the day when the Whistlerverse stops communicating with us.

@thegamingpigeon3216 2 ай бұрын

What's really sad is that it's very likely Voyager 1's signal will be too weak to communicate back and forth with Earth and beyond the deep space networks reach before it actually "dies". There's been some debate over which will happen first but these days it's generally believed it'll lose contact first. At that point, it'll sail on on it's lonesome for a few years before losing power and being lost to the vast universe.

@nickgordon9454 2 ай бұрын

Never!

@xirix 2 ай бұрын

I hope to be alive the day we develop the technology to have a spacecraft that recover voyager and bring it back.

@crakkbone8473 2 ай бұрын

He’s immortal. Fact boy is eternal.

@ContentEnjoyer-gm3ky Ай бұрын

@@xirixIf hyper jumping from Star Wars, or wormholes existed, we could probably get her back.

@deaks25 2 ай бұрын

The Voyager probes, along with the Space Shuttle, are what inspired me to pursue a career in engineering and I will be genuinely saddened when the probes have to be powered down. For me they have to rank as one of, if not the, greatest feats of the 20th Century. It won't happen within my life time but I hope one day we'll have the ability to go out and recover both Voyager's and bring them home.

@Ed_Stuckey 2 ай бұрын

I remember how excited I was when the Voyager, Pioneer, and all the manned programs were launched. I suppose it was due in addition to the chance to gain knowledge, it was also some relief that we weren't as far behind Russia as we had been the October day a few years earlier when I was watching Sputnik in awe mixed with fear as it passed over our home.

@ClutchMyPrimus1 Ай бұрын

This channel is great! I was born in 1970, my grandfather told me that the Voyager's would be around when I was old & he was dead. Yeah, he was right! I've always thought about these crafts...... even after my great great great grandkids are dead they still have yet to find a 3rd star. Thats how big space is! 😮

@aRealAndHumanManThing 2 ай бұрын

Nice, new Astro video. Good to see more here

@reedr7142 2 ай бұрын

My Zelda Nintendo cartridge has a label on the back about battery backup only guaranteed for 5 years. Im still rocking that data 35+ years later. Hopefully the probes will keep things going for some time yet.

@70briareos 2 ай бұрын

As of the writing of this comment, Voyager 1 is 22 and a half light-hours away from the Earth.

@darthtac 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Simon and team. I just love the Voyagers.

@jonmurphy776 2 ай бұрын

According to Einsteins’ general relativity, time runs faster or slower in relation to gravitational fields. Voyager has already shown us this, but it has been misinterpreted as Voyager unexpectedly slowing down. In fact its clock has been running faster, confirming Einsteins theory once again!🎉

@rocky2332 2 ай бұрын

I'll be sad the day the Voyagers are declared dead. I was born in 76 so they've been out there for essentially my whole life. As a kid I remember their fly-bys of the gas giants and they're responsible for my favorite moment from our exploration of space (Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot). They are testament to the intelligence and will of human kind.

@TemplarWarden 2 ай бұрын

It was a moment of sadness when I first heard the news.

@burningchrome70 2 ай бұрын

This is really cool. Please continue these!

@lionzod6943 2 ай бұрын

Never kill this channel..unless your editor decides the voice altering sound effects need to return..then just shut it all down

@michaelschuette1743 2 ай бұрын

Great video as always keep em coming

@johndc2998 2 ай бұрын

Yes been waiting for a Simon video on the Voyager issue! PS dont kill the channel, myself and many others think its among the best space content on youtube. Interesting voice, topics, easy to follow, Astrographics is among the likes of Astrum or PBS Space or S E A etc.

@johnnyallred3753 2 ай бұрын

Great video on Voyager 1. Its incredible thr space probes are still trying to send back data to earth. I'm glad the space probe is still running, Even if not to well. And that NASA /JPL has not just stopped listening to Voyager 1 and 2. 'I'd like to hear about what thay have found or see so far If any thing. I say keep listening unt they bouth just stop sending messages back,Who knowa that could be a few more year's .

@RichardCook-on3gf Ай бұрын

I love the Voyagers and also the Pioneers.

@flareinc7413 2 ай бұрын

This channel is amazing and the Voyagers are super epic!

@prometheus1839 2 ай бұрын

I follow all the other Simon channels and have yet to see this channel for some reason, content binge begins! Thanks for mentioning it in a brain blaze episode.

@connissia 2 ай бұрын

I remember the launch of the Voyager 1, I was 6. :)

@kennethnielsen3864 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@Fister_of_Muppets 2 ай бұрын

Once Voyager 1 whizzed passed Uranus, it was on borrowed time.

@sharonm703 2 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite channels.

@frankandstein8618 2 ай бұрын

UPDATE: Voyager I is talking again!

@JRWY66 2 ай бұрын

Great videos, always keep me entertained.

@morninggloryvisuals 2 ай бұрын

I'm really liking your new channel.

@Shado_wolf 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely loving this channel! I mean everything Simon does is great but Simon + space is s great combination! Just wish it was higher up my subscription list cos sometimes i forget to check for new videos (though then i get to binge 😅)

@kevinnsevinn799 2 ай бұрын

Humanity never ceases to amaze me…the high five is a classic 😬

@Iowa599 2 ай бұрын

Nobody has memorized Voyagers entire circuit schematic, yet? Come on! That's only, like, 6 er 7 wires!

@ahniiso5642 2 ай бұрын

Best channel!

@garyclark3843 2 ай бұрын

I remember your Decoding the Unknown episode on bit flips. Amazing how much can go wrong from something so small.

@patrickjordan2233 2 ай бұрын

Amazing stuff from NASA... An initial Mission profile (primary) of 5 years and they're still at it all these years later. A true testimony to engineers of yore And present....

@kylie-chan 2 ай бұрын

I love your scientific phrasing of "crap out" 😂

@blitzzer24 2 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorite channels on KZfaq! ❤ Simon don't kill it. Think of it as outer space Brain Blaze and it will be able to live on!

@Beryllahawk 2 ай бұрын

We'll remember the Voyagers always. If nothing else from things like this video and the many other documentaries discussing them, not to mention loads of pop culture references. And hey maybe they'll get "out there" and suddenly someone friendly will notice them.

@mrhassell 2 ай бұрын

Voyager 3, we know they have it. Launch it already!

@Dwohman 2 ай бұрын

I watched them launch. It's amazing that it lasted this long.

@milspectoothpick4119 2 ай бұрын

Simon with a space channel?! Yesss!

@Gremlack13 2 ай бұрын

Keep this channel Alive!!!!!!!!

@PopeOf420 2 ай бұрын

There ya go, teaching the truth no matter what the cost and being an encouragement to others, much love Jacob!!

@eadweard. 2 ай бұрын

What would the cost be?

@terrafirma5327 2 ай бұрын

@@eadweard.Angry flat-earthers I would imagine.

@Hofhole 2 ай бұрын

I love this channel. Everyone, we all must comment to feed the algorithm gods!!

@jefffixesit60 2 ай бұрын

Interesting that all the animations showed the parabolic antenna pointing away from Earth 🌎🌍🤔🤯😁

@windowboy 2 ай бұрын

It’s a great project they have there. The challenge of just keeping it alive.

@cindygr8ce 2 ай бұрын

As sad as ill be of we lose this channel ill b even more sad if they cant fix voyager. The Voyager probes have been on their journeys since before my birth but less than a year after my sisters.

@RavingKats 2 ай бұрын

It's astonishing that either one is still going let alone still drifting off into deep space.

@stax6092 2 ай бұрын

Voyager is pretty cool.

@curtusw 2 ай бұрын

The thing about voyager probes if we keep a little data or know how alive and if voyager one or 2 ever meet other life like in the first Star Trek movie we would be able to communicate with the probes if they do get a new life

@rj795w6 2 ай бұрын

oh this is awesome i love space stuff

@zebrafish995 2 ай бұрын

We love you Voyager!!!!!!!

@paulb8603 2 ай бұрын

The voyager program has been with me all my life and it will be a very sad day when when they stop communicating to us earthlings the secrets of space 😢, possibly the greatest space exploration program ever created by humans

@nolarobert 2 ай бұрын

I think the glitches in communicating with Voyager came from damage caused by being shot up by a Klingon Bird of Prey.

@captainawesome8632 2 ай бұрын

Voyager 1 travelled 7000 miles while I watched this video.

@slick4401 2 ай бұрын

They always picture the Voyager probes with the antennas pointing the wrong way.

@gpetheri 2 ай бұрын

9:10 Maybe there are comms issues because it's flying backwards.... Well done Astrographics.

@sendthis9480 2 ай бұрын

LOL! It’s Nine from “17776 / What Football Will Look Like in the Future” Great story!

@robsquared2 2 ай бұрын

The first problem was found at 10AM when clock on voyager 1 stopped. The 2nd problem occurred at 10AM when the clock stopped.

@stephenkiely9244 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes I am amazed with humans, how smart and inspiring scientists are, and then I am equally amazed when I see politicians...

@erichloehr5992 2 ай бұрын

I was 10 when those was launched. My father was in aerospace and as any boy at that age i wanted to be an astronaut. That was what seemed several lifetimes ago. NASA engineers: in the words of Hikaru Utada "Keep Trying"

@cmindel01 2 ай бұрын

For someone born in 1977, this hits different.

@Iamthestig42069 2 ай бұрын

Retrieving the voyager probes would be a cool challenge for whoever invents a physics breaking spacecraft first. Its the first step in conquest of the galaxy

@Enjoymentboy 2 ай бұрын

It'd be great if they managed to fully decide the data and saw that it was a message that read "Please turn down that horrible music and stop throwing your trash into our yard."

@MsZaneta123 2 ай бұрын

It's like losing a best friend.....so sad😢

@ishaqapalando 2 ай бұрын

Your last words are awe-inducing. We are indeed on a pale blue dot.

@HR-wd6cw 2 ай бұрын

Well, we also have to keep in mind that the power source on the Voyagers will run out obviously as it uses RTGs which will eventually run out of plutonium to convert into electricity. To be honest, it is quite amazing they have made it this far, as they only had an original design life-span of something like 5 years or so, but have lasted well over 8 times that so I think while it will be a sad day when Voyager 1 and 2 shut down, we have collected way more data than they were intended to collect, and so that, along with their original missions, I would call a definite success, and then some.

@tnwhiskey68 2 ай бұрын

I know right! Almost as if the battery is directly related to the program getting funded!

@Lngbrdninjamasta 2 ай бұрын

One of my favorite channels within the Whistler-verse. I love space without all the AI hype!

@a1white 2 ай бұрын

At least we still have contact even if we don’t know what it’s saying at the moment!

@georgevasilopoulos5359 2 ай бұрын

eyyyyyy nice its back

@user-kk7sw3bp6r 2 ай бұрын

Nice ending

@greendropmedia 2 ай бұрын

DO NOT kill this channel please!!

@colinkamoda9502 2 ай бұрын

We did!

@nicholashylton6857 2 ай бұрын

The NASA team fixed the problem! They are freaking wizards!

@Istandby666 2 ай бұрын

When humanity becomes an intergalactic species. Our future children will find the Voyager probes and wonder what form of alien devised such a technology.

@urbanracer032 2 ай бұрын

I just found this channel by sheer happenstance. Can Simon, Liam or someone post a small video displaying ALL of the channels he has, please?

@felipe367 2 ай бұрын

Fun fact : in one of the early Star Trek movies with shatner and co a storyline involved the Voyager space craft

@DrewNorthup 2 ай бұрын

Clarification: If the Deep Space Network is receiving a transmission containing "10101010…" then it is actually receiving a long string of zeros. This is because the probes use a very common scheme called Manchester Encoding to make it easier to pull the radio transmission out of the noise, detect the data rate, and synchronize the receiver so it knows when to expect the edges of each of the transmitted bits in the data stream.

@rickbase833 2 ай бұрын

Need to call those dudes from Space Cowboys to rescue Vger.......or wait until the Enterprise finds it in the energy cloud in STMP.

@natecody3305 2 ай бұрын

How is it in just finding yet ANOTHER channel?

@xrafter 2 ай бұрын

There is other reasons a but flip might happen not just rays. Like faulty hardware, heat, and overall the age of the machinery does make it prone to bit flips.

@codyj7532 2 ай бұрын

Dam did that finish heavy

@corujariousa 2 ай бұрын

We need new similar programs with modern technology/sensors.

@natsune09 2 ай бұрын

Voyager 1 is traveling at 38,210 mph and light currently takes 20 hours to reach it from Earth. Voyager 2 is at 35,000 mph and light takes 18 hours. New Horizons is at 36,000 mph and light takes 8 hours.

@jc_da_killa7132 2 ай бұрын

How many bloody channels does Simon have? I swear I come across a new one like every month.

@tnwhiskey68 2 ай бұрын

I guess if you cant make a lot of one channel, make a little from a lot of channels, all while gobbing up the search results.

@Cheesecakeman105 2 ай бұрын

Voyager of distant shores, sing for me your tale once more...

@terrafirma5327 2 ай бұрын

According to Cambridge Dictionary... A voyager is "a person who goes on a long and sometimes dangerous trip" **Those voyagers who first ventured into space certainly showed courage.** Straight from the dictionary entry.