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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried (www.npr.org)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Information on the heliopause is about the only useful thing we can get from something out that far. It turns out to be a lot more complex than we thought.

It seems to me that this would be worth a mission?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It'd be hard to justify a mission on that alone. At least for now. Get space based industry going and then there's lots of missions that open up.

New Horizons will get there eventually, and from a brief search, it sounds like it could still get back useful data once it's out that far. NASA will need to keep the communications line funded, though.