NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause
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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.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    38·
    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?

    • 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.

    • Ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.netEnglish
      16·
      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.

    • 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