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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.
Voyager 2 is sister craft to Voyager 1. Both have been traveling through the solar system and now beyond it for the last four decades. Together, they have transformed our understanding of our stellar neighborhood and are already revealing unprecedented information about the interstellar space beyond the Sun's sphere of influence.
https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth?utm_campaign=inverse&utm_content=1581096657&utm_medium=owned&utm_source=facebook
Link to tweet
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)RGinNJ
(1,018 posts)Since you're right!
Rhiannon12866
(203,011 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,595 posts)The science NASA has been able to do over the years is incredible.
Skittles
(152,964 posts)LOVE them
yonder
(9,631 posts)murielm99
(30,656 posts)Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,211 posts)murielm99
(30,656 posts)But who cares?
Tom Yossarian Joad
(19,211 posts)hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)videohead5
(2,150 posts)Are the batteries still working after this long?
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)videohead5
(2,150 posts)I posted this. It has generators not batteries.
burrowowl
(17,606 posts)The Voyagers have been wonderful sending back pictures and data. I remember when they were launched.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)WTG!!
kairos12
(12,817 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)reach Voyager 2?
11.5 Billion. Just as a reference, it's estimated from our Sun to pluto the distance is 7.4 billion miles.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)on my handy/dandy calculator app.
Fla Dem
(23,352 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Just click on VGR1 or VGR2 to see the data.
KY...............
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)Nevermind found the answer: about 20.5 light-hours
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)Link: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Find and click on "VGR1" or "VGR2" to see details. Note that if the shading of the antenna symbol is very light, the satellite is currently out of view.
Current data:
RANGE: 22.23 billion km
ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME: 1.72 days
ANTENNA NAME: DSS 14
AZIMUTH: 84.62 deg
ELEVATION: 13.52 deg
WIND SPEED: 36.42 km/hr
DATA
DATA RATE: 160.00 b/sec
FREQUENCY: 8.42 GHz
POWER RECEIVED: -156.26 dBm (2.36 x 10-22 kW)
RANGE: 18.51 billion km
ROUND-TRIP LIGHT TIME: 1.43 days
ANTENNA NAME: DSS 43
AZIMUTH: 199.78 deg
ELEVATION: 8.94 deg
WIND SPEED: 15.43 km/hr
DATA
DATA RATE: 159.00 b/sec
FREQUENCY: 8.42 GHz
POWER RECEIVED: -156.13 dBm (2.44 x 10-22 kW)
See, us engineers ain't all bad....... .........