Voyager 1 signal received by radio amateurs
[[Image:Voyager.jpg|right|thumb|Voyager 1]]
[[Image:72408main ACD97-0036-1.jpg|thumb|right|The space probe's journey]]
{{date|April 10, 2006}}

On March 31, 2006 the [[wikipedia:AMSAT|AMSAT]]-DL/IUZ team in [[wikipedia:Bochum|Bochum]], [[wikipedia:Germany|Germany]] managed to receive a signal by the American space probe [[wikipedia:Voyager 1|Voyager 1]] using the 20m antenna. It is the first time that a group of [[wikipedia:Amateur radio|radio amateurs]] has successfully attempted this. The team included: Freddy de Guchteneire, James Miller, Hartmut Päsler and Achim Vollhardt. 

Voyager 1 had been launched on September 5, 1977 by [[wikipedia:NASA|NASA]] and was the first spacecraft to transmit close-up pictures of [[wikipedia:Jupiter|Jupiter]] and [[wikipedia:Saturn|Saturn]]. In 2004 Voyager 1 entered the [[wikipedia:Heliopause|termination shock region]], the region where the [[wikipedia:Solar wind|solar wind]] has weakened enough to mix with the [[wikipedia:Interstellar medium|interstellar medium]], thereby leaving the [[wikipedia:Solar_System|Solar System]].

Voyager 1 is now 98 [[wikipedia:Astronomical unit|AU]] from [[wikipedia:Earth|Earth]] (14.7 billion km or three times the distance from Earth to [[wikipedia:Pluto|Pluto]]). It is the most distant human-made object. The nuclear powered probe continues to measure the properties of the interstellar magnetic field.

==Sources==
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|url=http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2006/voyager1.htm
|title=VOYAGER 1 received by AMSAT-DL group
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|pub=Southgate Amateur Radio Club
|date=April 1, 2006}}

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|url=http://www.amsat-dl.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=62&Itemid=97
|title=Raumsonde VOYAGER 1 von Funkamateuren empfangen
|author=Hartmut Päsler
|pub=www.amsat-dl.org
|date=March 31, 2006}}

==External Links==
[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/ Voyager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory]


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Voyager 1
The space probe's journey


On March 31, 2006 the AMSAT-DL/IUZ team in Bochum, Germany managed to receive a signal by the American space probe Voyager 1 using the 20m antenna. It is the first time that a group of radio amateurs has successfully attempted this. The team included: Freddy de Guchteneire, James Miller, Hartmut Päsler and Achim Vollhardt. 

Voyager 1 had been launched on September 5, 1977 by NASA and was the first spacecraft to transmit close-up pictures of Jupiter and Saturn. In 2004 Voyager 1 entered the termination shock region, the region where the solar wind has weakened enough to mix with the interstellar medium, thereby leaving the Solar System.

Voyager 1 is now 98 AU from Earth (14.7 billion km or three times the distance from Earth to Pluto). It is the most distant human-made object. The nuclear powered probe continues to measure the properties of the interstellar magnetic field.

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