The
Voyager spacecraft and its measurements were directly accessing reaches of
space that no mission has ever entered before.
It’s true that the data collection system based on eight-track tapes had
to be tinkered with along the way, that it no longer had a working camera, and
that its equipment has about a million times less memory than a smartphone does
today. But the spacecraft is still
operational and is currently the man-made object most distant from the Earth
and the Sun.
(from Dark Matter
and the Dinosaurs by Lisa Randall)
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