NASA’s Voyager 2 Is Experiencing an Unplanned ‘Communications Pause’

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From Gizmodo.com:
"The spacecraft’s antenna is—alarmingly—no longer pointing towards Earth, in what NASA hopes is a temporary problem."

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-s-voyager-2-un ... 1850686910

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[Graeme1858]

Let's hope they are able to reconnect in October.

Graeme

[Thefatkitty]

I second what Graeme says; it would be a shame to see it end like this.

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From The Guardian:
"Nasa detects signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact due to wrong command"

"‘Heartbeat’ signal from probe, now 12bn miles away, picked up after flight control mistakenly pointed its antenna away from Earth"

https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... ng-command

Hopefully they can get all back and keep it right this time.

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[helicon]

I hope so. too. V'ger has long exceeded expectations!

[Gfamily]

Consider a city about 1000 miles (1600km) away.
Communication with Voyager 2 has the same response time as messaging with someone in that city - by carrier pigeon.

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From Ars Technica:
“ Voyager 2 phones home and says everything is cool”

“ In an update posted Friday, NASA said all is now well once again with Voyager 2. NASA's Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, was able to send a "shout" command to Voyager instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself into a proper position to facilitate communication with Earth.”

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/v ... g-is-cool/

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[Juno16]

How freaking awesome is that!

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From AP News:
"NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to weeks of silence"

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-voyager ... 3c45a71131

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[Graeme1858]

That's a relief!