On iPlayer there's a 90 minute Storyville on Voyager. It's excellent.
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The Voyager doc was repeated on BBC4 last night. I have some doubts about the golden record that the news that a stylus and graphic instructions on how to play it were also included have only partly assuaged. That said, history suggests that they were right to choose it over the golden 8-track cartridge.
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Almost certainly pulsars, but there's always a 0.000001% chance of an interstellar message:
https://www.thejournal.ie/canada-fas...32170-Jan2019/
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Speaking of interplanetary craft, they're putting together the test vehicle fpr the space X SpaceShip. It's....... Shiny.
The purpose of this thing is to test out the engines, fly up in the air, and come back to land, going gradually higher and faster.
The final planned vehicle is reassuringly retro looking.
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The second set of measurements, by Voyager 2, give new insights into the nature of the heliosphere’s limits because on Voyager 1 a crucial instrument designed to directly measure the properties of plasma had broken in 1980. Measurements published in five separate papers in Nature Astronomy reveal that Voyager 2 encountered a much sharper, thinner heliosphere boundary than Voyager 1.
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