Pioneer and Voyager probes

Dell Tarrant

Dell Tarrant
Just wondering if these probes are featured in game? If so, has anyone encountered them yet? I believe that Pioneer 10 was heading in the general direction of Alderbaran, around 68 light years out from Sol, but it's not due to reach it for another two million years.

Pioneer 11 is heading in the general direction of the constellation Scutum.

The Voyager 1 looks like it reached the Oort cloud around 2300, but will take about 30,000 years to pass through it, so will still be there I think.

Voyages 2 is just about now reaching interstellar space. It's heading roughly toward Ross 248 and then pass close by Sirius in 296,000 years.

I know it's probably unlikely but is there a chance that these probes have been put into the game, to find?

If so, I just hope no one fires on them....! (Again!)
 

xondk

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Cmdr Frawd Digger said:
Really, would love to see them...just outside of Sol system?

Frawd
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Yup, if you go to Sol, you will be able to manually find them, meaning you need to find the circle that indicates 'something' like the ones for USS, but you need to find it manually by looking, once you find it, target, and fly towards it and you can then once you reach it (takes a good bit) then you can leave supercruise and see them.
 

Silvershadow

Silvershadow
xondk said:
Yup, if you go to Sol, you will be able to manually find them, meaning you need to find the circle that indicates 'something' like the ones for USS, but you need to find it manually by looking, once you find it, target, and fly towards it and you can then once you reach it (takes a good bit) then you can leave supercruise and see them.
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It is not so easy as it seems to be or I had a very unlucky day. :p (In Gamma, it was obviously a different thing)

I tried to find the voyagers a few month ago. :D
I took the progress tables I found on the internet and I tried to anticipate the coordinates (right ascension, declination) to the year 3302.

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/science/Vgrlocations.pdf

But I must admit, I used a rather strange method to calculate this.
As a consequence, I failed miserably. No voyagers at all at my predicted locations. :(

I have no idea how to calculate this properly, but I'm sure there must be a way. :)
 
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