Helluva latency

[rcjordan]

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

[littleman]

That's pretty amazing.

I got curious about its power system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHW-RTG

[ergophobe]

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.

[gm66]

Incredible!