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Would there not be some kind of benefit to send a chaser after the probes in order to act as a relay as the signal gets further away? Or is the ground based arr
by ethagknight 2y ago
Would there not be some kind of benefit to send a chaser after the probes in order to act as a relay as the signal gets further away? Or is the ground based array just as good as anything we could put in space at this time?
- ta988 2y agoWouldn't it be difficult as one would need large antennas and excellent alignment? Voyager to earth is "relatively" easy it "just" beams toward the sun. And earth can afford to get big antennas scanning.
- wkat4242 2y agoNo, their RTGs are almost exhausted anyway so soon they won't have enough power to run anything.
- TylerE 2y agoThe voyager probes were built in an incredible hurry to take advantage of a once-in-a-few hundred years optimal gravitational boosting path. Something launched later would never have been able to keep up, plus the antenna would be so, so much worse. The ground reptilian networks have effective antenna lengrhs of miles.