Travel trip, never come back

The Voyager mission began 50 years ago and both probes continue their long journey 23.3 billion kilometers from Earth. How far will this research project go?

Launched 15 days apart in the summer of 1977, first Voyager 2 and then Voyager 1, the Volkswagen Beetle-sized probes now explore interstellar space beyond the Solar System. It is the longest and farthest journey in history and it is not over. The project exceeded all expectations: 85,000 images, 24 moons discovered. We come again to the origins and future of an extraordinary mission.

A traveler travels, never returns.

We are happy to receive Jean-Loup Bertaux, Planetary Scientist, Emeritus Research Director at CNRS at LATMOS and Philip Henerejos, Science journalist, editor-in-chief of SEAL and Space magazine.

Today’s report

meeting with Athena Koostenis Planetary Scientist, CNRS Research Director at the Paris Observatory. How did the Voyager program open the door to the exploration and development of research programs on some of the moons of the Solar System, such as Titan? By Antoine Beauchamp:

Documentary sources

to find out Thread Show of the Day on La Science, CQFD’s Twitter feed.

Infographics – Voyager Planetary Mission

Video 1977 – Initiations of studies Voyager 2 And Journey 1

to detect – Voyager’s position is monitored in real time

Infographics – Heliosphere, a protective bubble

Interstellar Space: The Second Life of the Voyager Explorations (Science, September 2022)

Voyager 1: Repaired, the probe continues its mission beyond the solar system (Science and Avenir, September 2022)

How to interpret the unintelligible data of the study (Science and the Future, May 2022)

From interstellar space, explore (Science and the Future, 2021)

Question of the week: Are we going to send other probes like Voyager to space? (Science and the Future, 2020)

From interstellar space, the Voyager 1 probe sends a postcard to Earth (Science and the Future)

Music notes

Topic of the Day: Voyager’s Golden Record – El Cascabel Lorenzo Barcellata and Mariachi

Opening credits: Coca dunya By Aldin Gunn

End Credits: pingpxng By notes of yin yin