On Friday, December 1, 2017 at 6:43:18 PM UTC-8, RichA wrote:
On Friday, 1 December 2017 20:41:25 UTC-5, palsing wrote:
This is so cool!

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.p...ly201 71201-1

"If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrusters aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft successfully fired up Wednesday after 37 years without use..."

Thank goodness for miracle of radio-thermal generators. Still providing 300 watts of power after all these years.

The entire project is still mind-boggling, and still doing real science.