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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried (www.npr.org)
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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The planets needed to be in a certain alignment for the Voyager launches to work out like they did. The slingshot only works in one direction (if you go backwards, you lose momentum). Maybe we haven't seen another such alignment since, or didn't have a mission ready to launch if we did.