2023-07-31 22:47:00
[서울=뉴시스] Voyager Space’s imagination of the private space station ‘Star Lab’ currently under development (photo source: Voyager Space website on September 20, 2022) 2023.08.01. *Resale and DB prohibited
[케이프 캐너버럴( 미 플로리다주)= AP/뉴시스] Reporter Cha Mi-rye = The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it is making a frantic effort to find the signal sound of Voyager 2, which is billions of miles away from Earth. Voyager 2 lost contact with Earth as flight controllers mistakenly sent an erroneous command a week ago, sending it further into space. The antenna also turned out to be tilted away from the Earth. Even a 2% change in the direction of a spacecraft’s antenna is enough to break communication, NASA said. Voyager 2, which has plunged deeper into interplanetary space, has been lost. However, NASA said that it was searching with the slightest hope that Voyager’s signal or false signal might be picked up by NASA’s huge dish antenna installed in Canberra, Australia. Voyager’s current position is 19 billion kilometers from Earth, and even if the signal is transmitted to Earth, it would take 18 hours. Through its space antenna in Canberra, NASA plans to bombard the Voyager 2 probable vicinity once more next week with precise commands. The hope of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is that if one of them catches the signal, it can set Voyager’s mission right. If that doesn’t work, NASA officials told The Associated Press that they would have to wait until October for the spacecraft’s automatic reset mechanism to trigger and resume communications. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 to explore exoplanets. Two weeks later, the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 was launched. Voyager 1 is still in contact with Earth and is currently 24 billion kilometers away from Earth, making it the most distant human spacecraft. ☞ Sympathy Press Newsis [email protected] <저작권자ⓒ 공감언론 뉴시스통신사. 무단전재-재배포 금지.>
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