It’s honestly insanely impressive that these things are still working so long after being built and so far from us. One of mankind’s greatest achievements and even after they die they’ll still be out there somewhere floating around. Maybe long after we’re gone and the Earth is swallowed up by the sun. The last piece of proof that we even existed at all.
The engineering foresight that went into it is impressive. I wish we saw more of that in the world.
This reminds me of that Episode in Star Trek when Earth managed to reestablish communications with the starship Voyager, which was also far away from home.
Was that the first Star Trek movie? They recycled a lot of content, so it may have been elsewhere as well. Good movie though!
The first movie was indeed about the Voyager satellite, but my comment was referring to the Voyager TV series, where the starship Voyager (presumably named after the satellite) is lost in deep space and too far away from earth for any comms to go thru.
That’s awesome news!