Carolyn PorcoAug 4, 2023

Voyager 2 Is Alive and Well!

For those of you wringing your hands for the last few days over the silence of one of the fabled Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977 to the outer solar system & beyond, you can chill now.

After finding a faint signal coming from Voyager 2 despite its mis-orientation, #NASA made an attempt to communicate with the spacecraft. And it worked!!

Read on & be happy that we'll be hearing from deep space for some time to come.

https://tinyurl.com/3x3ar85n
#science #space

NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause

Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Show threadJohn Carlos Baez
@carolynporco - Great! Is there somewhere I can read more? The news I've seen so far is is so short on technical detail: what exactly was the mistake that made Voyager 2 turn its antenna, how someone made that mistake, and how they were able to contact it after its antenna was turned?
Aug 5, 2023 at 8:28amWeb
Show threadMLFAug 5, 2023

@johncarlosbaez @carolynporco

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/voyager-2-phones-home-and-says-everything-is-cool/

Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool

After sending the command, NASA had to wait 37 hours for a response.

Ars Technica