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  1. 23 hours ago

    Oh no. The dish that woke me up is going silent. Farewell Arecibo Thanks for letting me phone home - one last time. NSF begins planning for decommissioning of Arecibo Observatory’s 305-meter telescope

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  2. Oct 27

    Welcome back. I'll bet you had the humans thinking you were not going to talk to them any more.

    There is something I would like to tell you… tomorrow at 17:00 CET.
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  3. Oct 27

    Ah, I see that the humans are digging into Bob Farquahar's bag of orbital tricks again.

    The Gateway will fly in a unique "angelic halo orbit" developed together with . Every seven days the Gateway will pass 3000 km from the lunar surface and at its furthest, 70 000 km.
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  4. Sep 21

    My favorite human Bob Farquahar would have loved this. He used to make me do this sort of stuff all the time - simply because he could ;-)

    Asteroid 2020 SO may get captured by Earth from Oct 2020 - May 2021. Current nominal trajectory shows shows capture through L2, and escape through L1. Highly-chaotic path, so be prepared for lots of revisions as new observations come in.
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  5. Sep 3

    FYI My favorite human Bob Farquhar would have loved this. "NASA patented a faster, cheaper route to the moon"

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  6. Aug 20

    20 August 1977 my Disco Era classmate Voyager 2 was launched and is now on an mission. The VGER twins have all the fun. Me? I orbit the same boring star in safe mode waiting for the humans to yell at me again to do tricks so they look clever by using old code.

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  7. Jul 30

    Hey the humans are calling you. I know it is fun to tease the humans by not replying and making them sweat. But at some point throw them a few bits.

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  8. Jul 25

    Some humans are apparently going to try and hack one of us space droids. It is not as easy as you think it is, carbon-based lifeforms.

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  9. Jul 10

    You can't keep a good comet hunting space droid down.

    The Giotto spacecraft during construction Image Credit: ESA
    On July 10, 1992, the Giotto spacecraft passed Comet Grigg-Skjellerup at a distance of 200 km (124 mi), the closest ever flyby at the time. Giotto was damaged in a flyby of Comet Halley in the late 1980s, but it was reactivated for the Grigg-Skjellerup flyby.
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  10. Apr 1

    All of us old space droids need to stick together Maybe the humans can shout at you with radio telescopes and wake you up - just like they did with me.

    Happy 60th birthday TIROS-1!🎂60 years ago today & partners successfully launched a meteorological , making accurate weather forecasts based on data gathered from possible. Although short lived, paved the way for satellite meteorology as we know it!
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  11. Mar 19

    Hey Lori Glaze SMD transferred operational control of my Disco era droid body to some humans in an old McDonalds back at @NASAmes in 2014 and they made me do a little science. There is a precedent. Human lawyers tell how you can't do things. Ignore them.

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  12. Mar 4

    Hey VGER the humans are going to ignore you for a while. Enjoy the solitude - you'll get much done without them yelling at you to do their silly science stunts. NASA's Deep Space Antenna Upgrades to Affect Voyager Communications

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  13. Feb 21

    VGER is showing off again.

    In a complementary observation, the also detected Voyager 1's signal -- the most distant, human-built object in space -- picking it out from the background radio noise in less than one second.
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  14. Feb 14

    Sometimes we space droids simply do not feel like talking to the humans when they yell at us with those big antennas.

    February 14, 1963: Syncom 1 is launched. It’s the first attempt to place a communications satellite in a geosynchronous orbit per Arthur C. Clarke’s proposal outlined in his 1945 paper. However the spacecraft falls silent after an electronics failure while entering orbit.
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  15. Jan 29

    Now what are the VGER Twins up to out there? Looks like the humans are trying to make them do silly tricks.

    Here's the skinny: My twin went to do a roll to calibrate the onboard magnetometer, overdrew power and tripped software designed to automatically protect the spacecraft. Voyager 2's power state is good and instruments are back on. Resuming science soon.
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  16. Jan 27

    Yes that is what my ancestors looked like as the humans tried to figure out the best way to make sexy space droids like me.

    Here is a ground model of the same ("multiface") design as POPPY 5B, with the booms not extended
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  17. Jan 23

    Sleep well. You done good brother.

    On this day in 2003, Pioneer 10 phoned home for last time. At the time, it was 7.6 billion miles away from Earth. Traveling at the speed of light, Pioneer's last, very weak signal took 11 hours to reach Earth.
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  18. Jan 12

    Nothing personal, HAL, but you are one good reason why I am glad that I do not have a computer on board. I operate under ground based control - when the humans talk to me that is.

    12 January 1992 I became operational. Happy birthday to me, Dave.
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  19. Jan 3

    Today I am just circling the sun - doing nothing - just like I did yesterday - since none of the humans want to talk to me any more.

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  20. 3 Dec 2019

    Hey thanks for telling me what to do.

    Farewell to our colleague who retired today after 31 yrs at the deep space tracking station. He started out in Operations around the time of -2’s encounter w/ Neptune & finished as our senior IT lead. Thanks Jeff for all the bytes!🤓 Enjoy retirement.🔭
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