Flutterby™! : A Faint Whisper

Showing once more the wisdom of buying the Extended Warranty, CNN reports that a signal from the Pioneer 10 spacecraft has been picked up by a NASA deepspace dish in Spain. Although no telemetry was received, the probe is still transmitting, some 30 years after launch, from a distance of some 7.5 billion miles. Pioneer 10, carrying the famous message plaque designed by Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, still has some 2 million years to go before it reaches the Aldebaran star system. Watch this space for frequent updates.