After losing signal with the Voyager 2 space probe for over a week, NASA received a faint signal from the 46-year-old satellite Tuesday.
, NASA engineers at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory picked up the signal of a more homegrown spacecraft this week.for more than a week, scientists received a faint signal Tuesday, indicating that the 46-year-old satellite is still operating in deep space.
“So they’re hopeful as long as nothing goes wrong on board between now and , they’re anxious to get back in touch, but this is a pretty durable spacecraft. These are not spacecraft that are doing maneuvers or anything crazy. Their job is to sort of just keep going straight and hopefully that’s what it’ll keep doing.”
JPL’s Voyager’s 1-2 45th launch anniversary brought those who work on the missions together Thursday, Aug 25, 2022. As of the month of August 2022 the Voyager prob’s have gone 15 billion miles and takes 21 hours to send a command signal and 21 hours to receive a replay back to JPL that is till in contact with the probes.
However with very little onboard memory, until the antennas are repositioned the scientific community will be losing out on the valuable dataas it moves through a research-rich part of space known as the heliosphere.
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