'The Farthest' - Voyager Movie coming soon
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There's a new movie coming soon all about Voyager 1 and 2. It's just debuted and is coming out on wider release from this Friday. I can't find out where it's being released yet, but I'll keep an eye out and post back if I hear anything.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/
RobM77 said:
There's a new movie coming soon all about Voyager 1 and 2. It's just debuted and is coming out on wider release from this Friday. I can't find out where it's being released yet, but I'll keep an eye out and post back if I hear anything.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/
Great! Please do!http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/
Simpo Two said:
All modern sci-fi films have a mixed race crew of psychologically unsuitable disparates who argue incessantly and then all die except one. I'm not sure how they're going to fit in with Voyager...
Sorry, I forgot to say it's a two hour documentary 
That may have happened back on earth though at a University somewhere 
I bet there were all sorts of fights, arguments etc during the planning stages of these missions. Indeed, at the very beginning of the project there was the ultimate battle with government - which resulted in the original mission being cancelled.
The original working title for the project was "The Grand Tour" mission which would take advantage of the fact that the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) would all be on the same side of the sun from about 1978 through to the mid 1980s. It was seen as an opportunity to use gravity assist to have one or two probes slingshot their way from planet to planet. If the opportunity was missed then any further missions to the outer planets would be slower and more spread out.
Unfortunately, Congress didn't want to fund the original concept. NASA then offered a stripped down and cheaper version using "off the shelf" technology that had been designed under the various Mariner programmes to Mars, Venus and Mercury suitably adopted and upgraded. The missions were originally referred to as Mariner-Jupiter but were later renamed Voyagers 1 and 2.
Two cheaper missions were launched in 1973 to test the concept of slingshots using Jupiter and Saturn which were called Pioneers 10 and 11. These actually were on slightly slower trajectories than the Voyagers.
As of 2015 the probes are at the following distances -
Voyager 1 - 131 AU (astronomical units ie. the distance from the earth to the sun)
Pioneer 10 - 114 AU
Voyager 2 - 108 AU
Pioneer 11 - 90 AU
New Horizons - 32 AU
The original working title for the project was "The Grand Tour" mission which would take advantage of the fact that the outer planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) would all be on the same side of the sun from about 1978 through to the mid 1980s. It was seen as an opportunity to use gravity assist to have one or two probes slingshot their way from planet to planet. If the opportunity was missed then any further missions to the outer planets would be slower and more spread out.
Unfortunately, Congress didn't want to fund the original concept. NASA then offered a stripped down and cheaper version using "off the shelf" technology that had been designed under the various Mariner programmes to Mars, Venus and Mercury suitably adopted and upgraded. The missions were originally referred to as Mariner-Jupiter but were later renamed Voyagers 1 and 2.
Two cheaper missions were launched in 1973 to test the concept of slingshots using Jupiter and Saturn which were called Pioneers 10 and 11. These actually were on slightly slower trajectories than the Voyagers.
As of 2015 the probes are at the following distances -
Voyager 1 - 131 AU (astronomical units ie. the distance from the earth to the sun)
Pioneer 10 - 114 AU
Voyager 2 - 108 AU
Pioneer 11 - 90 AU
New Horizons - 32 AU
Einion Yrth said:
Simpo Two said:
Eric Mc said:
Voyager 1 - 131 AU
I think that's about 0.02 of a light year.Depressing isn't it.
Incidentally, to get a handle on just how fast Voyager 1 is moving, the NASA website have a counter and you can watch the kilometres increasing rapidly. Incidentally, the counter says114.974 AU right now.
Eric Mc said:
It's coming back?
We have very weird internet here at work and the websites I looked on are being rendered in an odd way on my screen. I can't work out what they mean, even now I realise it's causing an error:https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
RobM77 said:
We have very weird internet here at work and the websites I looked on are being rendered in an odd way on my screen. I can't work out what they mean, even now I realise it's causing an error:https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/where/
Voyager 2: 114.2 AU from us
Anyone figured out how we can watch this documentary? Are we going to have to pretend to be in the US to stream it from the PBS website?
EricMc said:
It's coming back?
The site says "Note: Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1[/2] is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year"RobM77 said:
What I find remarkable is that's a seriously big distance in human terms. Voyager 1 has been travelling at around 17km per sec for decades - night and day, 7 days a week, but it took it 35 years to reach the heliopause, the edge of the solar system. That's astonishing!
I believe the true extent of our solar system is out to approx 2 Light years, the extent of the Oort cloud, all be it hypothetical. HaiKarate said:
RobM77 said:
What I find remarkable is that's a seriously big distance in human terms. Voyager 1 has been travelling at around 17km per sec for decades - night and day, 7 days a week, but it took it 35 years to reach the heliopause, the edge of the solar system. That's astonishing!
I believe the true extent of our solar system is out to approx 2 Light years, the extent of the Oort cloud, all be it hypothetical. HaiKarate said:
I wonder what the chances are of an Alien space-ship bumping into one of the voyagers at some stage? I suppose they will enter inter-galactic space around the time our sun burns out by which time it will be too late anyway.
I love the idea of one of the Voyager probes becoming a 'Rama' for another solar system, but I've no idea how likely that is, because we don't know how common life is. Given how far apart stars are in our galaxy (when galaxies 'collide' the stars just pass right by each other, the only interaction being remote via gravity), I suspect it'll spend most of its life in interstellar space, and I don't see a reason for an alien craft to be in such an area, given the prohibitively vast distances involved in interstellar travel. That said, without any corrosion in space, Voyager should just continue forever until it collides with something or gets trapped in orbit around another star; if the latter then I guess it depends what the percentage of stars are that are inhabited, which is something we don't know. One thing I do know is that I'm almost certain we'll all be dead and gone before it so much as sees another star! It does return me to my mention of Rama though: whatever the chances of Voyager finding another civilisation, by logic the chances of an alien probe entering our solar system are far greater, because there are bound to be more of them than us. The chances before we die out though? Very slim I'd have thought!HaiKarate said:
I wonder what the chances are of an Alien space-ship bumping into one of the voyagers at some stage? I suppose they will enter inter-galactic space around the time our sun burns out by which time it will be too late anyway.
I'm rather hoping that a human in a spaceship overtakes them and bumps into whatever is out there waiting for us!Gassing Station | TV, Film, Streaming & Radio | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff