Voyager’s signal now reaches Earth as a whisper measured in fractions of a billionth of a watt, fainter than almost anything our antennas were built to hear
Voyager is not loud anymore. It never really was. The spacecraft carries a transmitter with roughly the power of a household light bulb, and that signal has been spreading across space since 1977. By…
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