1/48 Hasegawa Voyager 1 Space Probe

You can make a second one of Voyager returning to Earth as V'ger.

Yes! How did I not check wikipedia? Now I just need to find someone who can wire up the base. I need a "maker".

This is the math your looking for.

Link

You will need a lot of digits if you want to use miles or kilometers.  The distance of Voyager 1 from the sun is 128.748 astronomical units or 1.03997984 × 10^10 nautical miles or 1.19678743 × 10^10 International miles, or 1.92604267 × 10^10 kilometers. Its velocity relative to the sun is 38,072.6557 miles per hour. That's a little faster than your car.

Really? I'm looking for someone to help me work out the mathmatical formula that would be the basis for the Voyager odometer base that I want to build. Do you think he would be able to help with that?

My dad worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when I was growing up.

Nice!

Mike

Hmm. Not sure about that one. I just hope that the video of him doing weird things to his girlfriend wasn't included.

Thank you for the link señor modeler.anyone remember  the craft with chuck berry music on board?

Saw a build from that kit take top place in a show in the real space category. I can indeed be made into a great model.

Thanks raualduke. It's filled with images, scenes and sounds from earth. Take a look here:

voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/.../goldenrec.html

Fantastic job.any idea what the symbols on the golden record mean?

Thanks!

The PE really adds a lot. Especially with the magnetometer rig and the rig structure that holds the cameras.

Excellent job!

I did one of these also, sweet to assemble. If I get the itch to do this again, I'm going to pickup the PE set for this.

That's very cool! Thanks for sharing.