Just get me thinking: Why there is not more missions like this ? It takes significant time to cross "somewhere there", every year one launch could not hurt ?
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*Obligatory video: "Uptime 15,364 days - The Computers of Voyager" by Aaron Cummings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H62hZJVqs2o
Also here on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=voyager
That makes absolutely no sense. Even someone who thinks technological progress will slow greatly in the future would acknowledge that something designed today will likely be obsolete and unbuildable in 127 years. I mean, probably *every* *single* electronic component in a design made today will almost certainly have been EOL for over a century by the time 2150 rolls around.
It would be no surprise to anyone to say the 2150 probes will have technologies that haven’t been invented yet, and won’t for some time.
https://spacenews.com/increasing-demands-putting-pressure-on...
Starship will both greatly reduce the cost to orbit, and the cost to design spacecraft (far wider mass budgets). I do not know how much C3 it will have, but very likely a kicker stage will come along for interplanetary and possibly interstellar craft.
https://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Interstellar-Probe-Exec...
So with twice the area of radio dish and a power supply that after 50 years is still double what Voyager launched with, the data rate will be two bytes per second.
https://www.zachtek.com/post/a-new-wspr-transmitter-for-ball...
Should be similar out there & also likely not much stuff to take photos of.