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The antenna is pointing two degrees off course, so you wouldn’t need to send a spacecraft all the way to catch up with Voyager 2 and fix it, you’d just need to
by jl6 3y ago
The antenna is pointing two degrees off course, so you wouldn’t need to send a spacecraft all the way to catch up with Voyager 2 and fix it, you’d just need to launch a relay spacecraft to the nearest point that intersects the signal beam. If Voyager 2 is about 32 billion km away, that point would be only about 1 billion km away, assuming the signal is a straight line.
“Only”.
It’s probably not worth it.
- contravariant 3y agoThat sounds like too much, but turns out that 2 degrees is indeed about 1/30 radians.
- megous 3y agoYou mean sending this antenna to space? https://megous.com/dl/tmp/95ce96af5966be24.png https://megous.com/dl/tmp/95ce96af5966be24.png :)
- 6510 3y agoIt looks enough like an umbrella.