Thread: Satellites....put things into perspective.....

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

Well we have cars in the flight threads, why not satellites?

Voyager 1 & Voyager 2....

Launched August and September 1977 on a space probe , both heading in different directions.

Flying at approximately 61,000kmh it would take about 70,000yrs just to reach the sun.....but they are flying out of our solar system and have actually escaped the gravitational pull.

They are free spirits now but are still operational and in contact and able to send and receive data and be controlled by NASA , even if it currently takes 17-21hrs for radio signals to be received.

This kind of information can be readily sourced from www.heavensabove.com

No good waiting for a quick response to one's email to seal a contract then when Time is of the Essence"?

Of course you could follow that one up with a query "Did you receive my latest?" but that would take 17-21 hours to get there as well, ad infinitum.


NAAAAHH. ****it.

I don't think Hal is aboard either of those spacecraft.

just imagine if you needed to make a quick diversion in case of a collision with something out there ....42 hours to complete the order may be a bit late.

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I don't think Hal is aboard either of those spacecraft.

just imagine if you needed to make a quick diversion in case of a collision with something out there ....42 hours to complete the order may be a bit late.

At those speeds one probably couldn't see anything coming & by that time it'd be curtains anyway. Even with RADAR.

They are a bit further away than the communication satellites I “worked” with in the early Seventies which were in a geosynchronous orbit. I worked for a while at a TTC&M (Telemetry, Tracking, Control, and Monitoring) at OTC Carnarvon where we did just that on Intelsat birds both just after launch and beyond.

Originally Posted by p38arover

They are a bit further away than the communication satellites I “worked” with in the early Seventies which were in a geosynchronous orbit. I worked for a while at a TTC&M (Telemetry, Tracking, Control, and Monitoring) at OTC Carnarvon where we did just that on Intelsat birds both just after launch and beyond.

A friend of mine worked at HSK at the end of Apollo. He did Skylab and the deep space missions. He was a USB specialist (ex RAN). RIP

I worked at Moree at the time of Apollo 11, we were the telecomms interconnection between the USA and Honeysuckle Creek.

We had a number of ex-navy guys working there, they were well trained and skllled.

Pete worked A16-17. He was at HMAS Harmon prior.

These were taken during the Deep Space era, hence not many crew.
Pete is in the background of the b&w photo at the USB radios.

Originally Posted by p38arover

I worked at Moree at the time of Apollo 11, we were the telecomms interconnection between the USA and Honeysuckle Creek.

We had a number of ex-navy guys working there, they were well trained and skllled.

What facility is at Moree?