NASA Just Regained Contact With Voyager 2

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For the last 45-plus years, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has been hurling through space further from Earth. At around 12.3 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) away, the spacecraft is in uncharted territory and an important asset to NASA and the space community. This is why many were concerned when communication with the probe was lost late last month in July.

This communication interruption had to do with a series of instructions sent by the agency that ended up altering the antenna placement. Thankfully, just days ago the agency was able to receive science and telemetry data from the spacecraft. However, they don’t expect a full fix until an automated maneuver meant to happen in October.

By now, Voyager 2 has completed its main objectives and has managed to survive much longer than originally thought. As it flies through interstellar space, who knows what discoveries it could make. Here I will go more in-depth into the communication dropout, how NASA was able to reestablish communication, the journey of this probe, and more.

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Communication Blackout
3:46 - Interstellar Space
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If Voyager 3 and Voyager 4 were travelling outbound, on parallel courses, would they be able to detect objects by sending radio signals from one probe to the other, looking for deflection patterns?

Steve-Richter
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Voyager 1 and 2 are my all time favourite spacecraft, I'm confident it'll keep going till 2029 since not all instruments have been turned off yet plus procedural upgrades to the dsn will extend the visible frequency bands of deep space missions in the future. There's still so much to learn and these two are our eyes and ears into that. Long live Voyager!

chronablitz
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OMG. what I wouldn't give to see every instruction in V2 onboard SW....

robshaw
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If we were sending many more voyagers out beyond the solar system would they be able to detect wandering planets? I have read there are many more wandering planets then there are stars in the galaxy. Would be neat to have probes out mapping interstellar space.

Steve-Richter
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This guy is the hardest working YouTuber! Respect

Syclone
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Not all that surprising, but cool (I guess)…

MikeOxlong-
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I’ll just say this, otherwise I will just be dismissed as a narrow minded idiot! Humanity will eventually make contact with whatever is out there, and trust me, he will regret it!!!

Spica