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February 9, 2020 06:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/faFnLXLWmzM/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-115-billion-miles-from-earth
NASA Brings Voyager 2 Fully Back Online, 11.5 Billion Miles From Earth
Iwastheone quotes Inverse: In an incredible feat of remote engineering, NASA has fixed one of the most intrepid explorers in human history. Voyager 2, currently some 11.5 billion miles from Earth, is back online and resuming its mission to collect scientific data on the solar system and the interstellar space beyond. On Wednesday, February 5 at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, NASA's Voyager Twitter account gave out the good news: Voyager 2 is not only stable, but is back at its critical science mission. "My twin is back to taking science data, and the team at @NASAJPL is evaluating the health of the instruments after their brief shutoff," the account tweeted... In a statement, NASA confirmed that Voyager 2 is back in business. "Mission operators report that Voyager 2 continues to be stable and that communications between the Earth and the spacecraft are good...." The fix is no mean feat: It takes 17 hours one-way to communicate with Voyager 2 from Earth, which is the furthest away manmade object in space. That means a single information relay takes 34 hours.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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