NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause
www.jpl.nasa.gov
Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2::Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

  • Veedem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    534·
    1 year ago

    It’s amazing that we can even communicate with something so far away. Science is ridiculously awesome regardless of how much a certain wing of the political spectrum would have you think otherwise.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    The agency’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an interstellar “shout” more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) to Voyager 2, instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself and turn its antenna back to Earth.

    so basically… “g’day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!”. did I get that one right?

    • El Barto@lzrprt.sbsEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      Nah it was more like " Oi cunt, the fuck you doing!? straighten yourself out mate! for fucks sake!"

    • Ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.netEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Token Aussie reporting in. Good effort.

      Given this is was described as a shout this probably more of a ‘COOOO-EEEEEEEee!’

      Or maybe a ‘OI OVER HERE YA CUNT’, but I cant speak to the tension level at the Canberra DSC.

      • Tb0n3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        Well last I saw from the aussie instance they got all offended somebody used the word cunt in a post title.

        I tried to find it but didn’t see the post in my comment history. Just thought it was pretty ridiculous.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      You missed the best part that it only takes 18 hours for the signal to travel 20 billion kilometers. That’s the longest two way communication in history and honestly that’s not going to change soon.

    • JoeyGoodbody@lemmy.studioEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      That’s absolutely mind bending that they have the accuracy to shoot a beam of information that far, and are able to hit the craft, while it’s spinning

  • Tilted@programming.devEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Voyager 2 is one of the coolest achievements of all time. Are there any efforts under way for anything similar with modern tech?

    • mwguy@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      New Horizons, the one that photoed Pluto, is expected to reach the edge of the solar system in 2040.

  • rdri@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    I’m irritated by the fact that not a word has been said about where exactly it is right now. I googled and found: it’s outside of the solar system and the sun’s influence.

    It’s not that I’ve never heard of it, I just needed a confirmation that I was hoping to find in the article.