Well, except for just after the Voyager probes were added to the game, before the 1000 Ls detection range for POIs was implemented and they were visible on the system map as soon as you entered Sol system. It was better back then, too.
Finding the Voyagers used to be a trial of patience, navigational skillz and good old fashioned luck. That's all changed now. With the FSS, the three Ancient Probes in Sol system (Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons) all appear as unresolved "concentrated signal source" blips on the FSS after honking. Scan them in the FSS, and they become accessible waypoints on the nav panel, even from 2 million Ls away.
The tourist beacon they've placed out near Voyager 1 is also visible at infinite range now, so stop off there to add a permanent log entry in your Codex Archive to prove you've made the trip.
So, if you've got yourself the Sol permit but never yet made the trip, do like the billboards you now see all over the galaxy tell you to do: "Visit the Voyager probes - only in Sol". It's a good half hour cruise out there, so sit back and relax or, for the keen amateur astronomers out there, you can play "spot the constellations" while in transit.
Oh, and remember: since you lose 1% of Integrity per 100,000 Ls travelled and the Voyager 1 is 2.1 million Ls away, don't make the trip in an expensive-to-repair ship if you can't easily afford the 21%-damage-to-integrity repair bill.
Finding the Voyagers used to be a trial of patience, navigational skillz and good old fashioned luck. That's all changed now. With the FSS, the three Ancient Probes in Sol system (Voyager 1, Voyager 2 and New Horizons) all appear as unresolved "concentrated signal source" blips on the FSS after honking. Scan them in the FSS, and they become accessible waypoints on the nav panel, even from 2 million Ls away.
The tourist beacon they've placed out near Voyager 1 is also visible at infinite range now, so stop off there to add a permanent log entry in your Codex Archive to prove you've made the trip.
So, if you've got yourself the Sol permit but never yet made the trip, do like the billboards you now see all over the galaxy tell you to do: "Visit the Voyager probes - only in Sol". It's a good half hour cruise out there, so sit back and relax or, for the keen amateur astronomers out there, you can play "spot the constellations" while in transit.
Oh, and remember: since you lose 1% of Integrity per 100,000 Ls travelled and the Voyager 1 is 2.1 million Ls away, don't make the trip in an expensive-to-repair ship if you can't easily afford the 21%-damage-to-integrity repair bill.
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