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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on February 09, 2020, 03:20:28 AM

Title: Helluva latency
Post by: rcjordan on February 09, 2020, 03:20:28 AM
NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth

https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth
Title: Re: Helluva latency
Post by: littleman on February 09, 2020, 04:14:38 AM
That's pretty amazing.

I got curious about its power system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHW-RTG
Title: Re: Helluva latency
Post by: ergophobe on February 09, 2020, 03:33:32 PM
11,500,000,000/(186,000*3600) = roughly 17

That's 17 light hours away. That's boggling. If you flip a switch and it sends back a signal to say, "yup, I'm on," that's a 34-hour delay.
Title: Re: Helluva latency
Post by: gm66 on May 05, 2020, 11:01:52 PM
Incredible!
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