In 1977, five years before ET asked to “phone home,” two robotic spacecraft began their own journeys into space — Voyager 1 and Voyager 2. Almost 46 years later, after exploring the Solar System and beyond, one of those spacecraft — Voyager 2 — has lost contact with Earth. All communications with Voyager 2 go ...
On Oct. 29, mission operators sent a series of commands to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March. The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 70-meter-wide (230-foot-wide) radio antenna used to talk to it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the “call” and ...
Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the spacecraft Voyager 2 has entered the interstellar medium (ISM), the region of space outside the bubble-shaped boundary produced by wind streaming outward from the Sun. Voyager 2 thus becomes the second human-made object to journey out of our Sun’s influence, following Voyager 1’s solar exit in 2012. ...
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