Just watched the catch stream live on the dome of a local planetarium - really feeling history is being made.
It was all so symbolic, they just had a talk about the Voyager probe reaching one light day from Earth accompanied by screening of the Startrek movie (which includes V'ger/Voyager) and ad hoc decided to stream the catch just after the movie ended.
Was a really surreal experience, first watching the tiny Enterprise zooming around the vast V'ger spacecraft only to see Starship zooming through the clouds and getting caught, all on the same planetarium dome projection! :-)
They do a lot of cool and clever stuff - for example for the partial solar eclipse in August, it was not well observable from their grounds, as it was happening low above the horizon near sunset. So they rented a hot air baloon, which even launched from a meadow next to the Planetarium (which is often used for hot air baloon launches during the summer) and then they live streamed the eclipse for as long as possible - IIRC about ~5 minutes longer than what was possible to see on the grounds. the Stream recording is here, end to end from baloon launch to night landing in a field: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWrs-36nvg4&pp=0gcJCVgCo7VqN5t...
It was all so symbolic, they just had a talk about the Voyager probe reaching one light day from Earth accompanied by screening of the Startrek movie (which includes V'ger/Voyager) and ad hoc decided to stream the catch just after the movie ended.
Was a really surreal experience, first watching the tiny Enterprise zooming around the vast V'ger spacecraft only to see Starship zooming through the clouds and getting caught, all on the same planetarium dome projection! :-)
They do a lot of cool and clever stuff - for example for the partial solar eclipse in August, it was not well observable from their grounds, as it was happening low above the horizon near sunset. So they rented a hot air baloon, which even launched from a meadow next to the Planetarium (which is often used for hot air baloon launches during the summer) and then they live streamed the eclipse for as long as possible - IIRC about ~5 minutes longer than what was possible to see on the grounds. the Stream recording is here, end to end from baloon launch to night landing in a field: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wWrs-36nvg4&pp=0gcJCVgCo7VqN5t...