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SPACE – « Earth to Voyager… » NASA mistakenly interrupted contact with its legendary Voyager 2 spacecraft, sent into space in 1977 and currently located 19.9 billion kilometers from Earth, on July 21, the American space agency announced in a press release Friday, July 28.
Some orders “inadvertently pointed the antenna two degrees away from Earth”, explained NASA. Result: ” Voyager 2 is currently unable to receive commands or transmit data back to Earth. Note that a message sent by the probe takes 18 hours to reach our planet.
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Fortunately this Tuesday, August 1, the agency announced on social networks that a signal had been heard. THE “pulse” of the probe was detected thanks to the use of the « deep space network »an international network of antennas, said Suzanne Dodd, in charge of the mission at NASA, to AFP. “So we know the ship is alive and operational. It made us happy”she added.
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A command has since been sent by this same means in an attempt to reorient the antenna, but the probability that this will work is ” weak “, she clarified. In which case, it will be necessary to wait until October, the date of the next reset of its orientation, so that the exchange of data can resume normally.
Voyager 2 left the protective bubble of the Sun, called the heliosphere, in 2018 to enter interstellar space. Before leaving the solar system, it became the only probe to fly over Uranus and Neptune.
Its twin Voyager 1, also launched in 1977, became the first craft to enter interstellar space in 2012 and is currently regarding 24 billion kilometers from Earth.
The two probes, mythical NASA missions, each carry recordings of sounds and images of the Earth on gold and copper plates.
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