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1. eimrin+m6[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:18:28
>>belter+(OP)
> The probe is currently around 32 billion kilometers from Earth, and gets 15km further away every second.

I beg anybody to rephrase it understandingly with using some units similar to football fields. Is it possible to launch a little cheap rocket with a transmitter just to correct Voyager's position?

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2. jl6+sb[view] [source] 2023-07-31 11:58:24
>>eimrin+m6
The antenna is pointing two degrees off course, so you wouldn’t need to send a spacecraft all the way to catch up with Voyager 2 and fix it, you’d just need to launch a relay spacecraft to the nearest point that intersects the signal beam. If Voyager 2 is about 32 billion km away, that point would be only about 1 billion km away, assuming the signal is a straight line.

“Only”.

It’s probably not worth it.

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3. contra+Lb[view] [source] 2023-07-31 12:01:31
>>jl6+sb
That sounds like too much, but turns out that 2 degrees is indeed about 1/30 radians.
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