"It will take about a little over 19 and a quarter hours for it to pass by Voyager on its way out to interstellar space. "We're sending it at the Voyager rate of 16 bits per second, which means it will take 28 seconds for the message to be totally transmitted," said Jeff Berner, Deep Space Network chief engineer at JPL. The 56-character long message was translated by JPL into 448 bits and put into the Voyager command format. You are not alone," said Shatner, reading Jenkins' entry. Oliver Jenkins, on Twitter, submitted the winning message. Out of thousands of entries received, NASA narrowed the choices to 10, from which a public vote chose the winner. Not a lot of space for a large space," noted Shatner, who gave the command to begin sending the message at JPL on Tuesday.Ĭlick to enlarge and view video in a new, pop-up window.
"Only 60 characters, that's half a tweet. The message was limited to 60 characters long, including spaces and punctuation. Inspired by the goodwill messages carried on the Golden Record, NASA chose to mark the 40th anniversary of the Voyager 1 launch by inviting the public to help identify a short message to be transmitted to the probe and what lies beyond it. Though both craft continue to send data back to Earth, the information the Voyagers carry outward - in the format of the Golden Record - will ultimately be their final mission. "From many points of view, Voyager represents humanity's most ambitious journey of discovery and that's what I think is its legacy," said Ed Stone, Voyager project scientist and former director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, at an anniversary event hosted by the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC on Tuesday (Sept. NASA commemorative artwork celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1977 launches of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft. It is now the longest continuously operating spacecraft and is on its way out of the solar system, like Voyager 1. 20, 1977, flew by Jupiter and Saturn and then became the first and only spacecraft to date to fly by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2, which preceded its twin into space on Aug. It is currently about 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from the sun. 5, 1977, flew by Jupiter and Saturn before becoming the first of humanity's creations to enter interstellar space in 2012. Kirk in 1979's "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" came across a Voyager probe. "When you think of the mysterious void that's out there and what little we know, and we're sending a message out and it goes out into the stars," remarked William Shatner, who as Captain James T. Now, four decades after the records were sent into space, artists who were associated with the original discs' creation, and an actor who had a fictional encounter with a Voyager probe on film, have launched projects to celebrate the Golden Record, extending its basic premise to another mission and bidding farewell to the Voyagers themselves. The "Golden Record," which is mounted to both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, convey sounds, images and greetings from the people of planet Earth on the chance that some distant extraterrestrial intelligence will one day intercept one of the probes. Forty years after NASA launched a pair of robotic probes on journeys out into our solar system and beyond, the messages the spacecraft carried about us still resonate here on Earth, and as dispatches going out in space.
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