NASA has taken control of the legendary Voyager 2 probe
Voyage among the giant planets of the Solar System The Voyager missions, launched in the 1970s, offered humanity the first sights...
People over 40 will probably remember the images from the Voyager 2 probe, which was the first to fly over the icy giants Uranus and Neptune, photographing some of their moons and rings during the 1980s. André Brahic was with us again to comment on the discoveries made and in which he had participated.
It is therefore with the feeling of passing time that makes everything pass that forties - and more - of the noosphere had learned that NASA had lost contact with Voyager 2, as Futura explained in the previous articles below. below. An error had obviously deviated the pointing of the probe towards the Earth, interrupting the communications. However, one could think that nothing was lost since in accordance with the prescient programs of possible similar problems of the NASA engineers, Voyager 2 was going to make a kind of automatic reset with restoration of its pointing towards the Earth on October 15, 2023.
The Voyager 2 probe is only the second spacecraft to enter the interstellar medium, since Voyager 1 in 2012. For a fairly accurate French translation, click on the white rectangle at the bottom right. The English subtitles should then appear. Then click on the nut to the right of the rectangle, then on “Subtitles” and finally on “Translate automatically”. Choose “French”.
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NASA understood a few days ago - following the detection of a weak signal coming from the probe - that the pointing error should not be large, and let it be known that a strong signal was therefore sent in direction of the probe from a famous radio telescope in Australia, that of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC).
The signal made it possible to unblock the situation and during the day of August 4 came the response of the probe to its native Earth, namely again scientific and telemetry data, indicating that the probe is functioning normally, despite the weather. passed without following instructions from the noosphere and that it stays on its planned trajectory in interstellar space.
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