15 Nov
1998
15 Nov
'98
3:50 a.m.
Kevin McQuiggin wrote:
Hi Group:
I'm late to this thread, but if it hasn't been mentioned already, I recall
that both Voyager I and Voyager II space probes were 4004 based in their
control/housekeeping units.
I see from the JPL pages that regular communications with Voyager have
just recently ceased, and that they are well beyond Pluto and above the
plane of the solar system, next system to be reached in about 20000 years.
No, that's when they get _as far_ as the next solar system, but
they're not aimed in a direction that approaches anything that
close. The closest systems are mostly south.
And presently, the edge of our solar system (in terms of known
planets) is the orbit of Neptune, Pluto is inside that and will
be for more than a decade yet.
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