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>The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses? Astronomers are still bouncing range-finding lasers off the reflectors left on the Moon by Apollo 11, but fancy mirrors hardly count.

Archive: https://archive.today/ultxx From the post: >>The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia. 1977's Voyagers hold some impressive records beside those golden discs, just not that one. Any guesses? Astronomers are still bouncing range-finding lasers off the reflectors left on the Moon by Apollo 11, but fancy mirrors hardly count.
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Nah bro, Transit 5B-5 still talks in an operational manner even though it's not controllable anymore. It was launched in 1965 as part of the pre-GPS satnav system. LES-1 is also from the same era and still yaks at times.

Transit's data isn't very interesting to listen to, but LES has a carrier that whines with it's tumbling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JLow8wO-2I

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very interesting, ill check it out.

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I guess "technically" Oscar-7 still is the only one useable for it's original mission. It's in the right orbit, but it's not powered 24/7 due to falling out of the sun's view.