A good question from a friend of mine....If Voyager was made today, using today's technology, how long do you think you could keep it going, given Voyager is expected to power off completely in 10-15 years or so?
At least I'm pretty sure that memony isn't.
And electronics don't really wear out.
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 09/14/2013 03:51 amA good question from a friend of mine....If Voyager was made today, using today's technology, how long do you think you could keep it going, given Voyager is expected to power off completely in 10-15 years or so? [...] Comms range might be the limit. New Horizons has a smaller and lower gain antenna than Voyager. Taking a wild-ass guess that the receiver is about 3db more sensitive than Voyager's, they should have about the same receive range. I don't know New Horizon's output power on the high gain dish so can't guess the transmit range.