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  1. NASA says it has resumed full contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft

    A NASA image of one of the twin Voyager space probes. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after mistakenly pointing its antenna 2 degrees away from Earth.

  2. Voyager 2: Nasa fully back in contact with lost space probe

    Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than expected, the space agency said. In July a wrong command was made to the spacecraft, sent to explore space in 1977 ...

  3. NASA's Voyager 2 Is Out of Contact but Not Lost in Space

    On Friday, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that they had lost contact with Voyager 2, which is over 12 billion miles from Earth. Engineers on the ground sent an ...

  4. NASA Restores Voyager 2 Contact With a Last-Ditch 'Shout' Into Space

    The space agency lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 when the mission team accidentally sent a command that pushed the spacecraft's antenna two degrees away from Earth. On Tuesday morning ...

  5. NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft after mistake led to

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago. Controllers sent the wrong command to the 46-year-old ...

  6. NASA hears 'heartbeat' of Voyager 2 after losing communication

    The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years. "We enlisted the help of ...

  7. NASA reestablishes full contact with Voyager 2 probe after nail-biting

    NASA has temporarily lost contact with the Voyager 2 probe — the second-farthest human made object from Earth in the universe, currently sailing through interstellar space roughly 12.3 billion ...

  8. NASA restores contact with lost Voyager 2 space probe after two weeks

    NASA's Voyager 2 was lost in space because of a mixed signal, but a command dubbed an "interstellar shout" and beamed across billions of miles has restored contact with the spacecraft after ...

  9. NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 after weeks of silence

    Aug. 4, 2023 6:22 PM PT. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence ...

  10. NASA has regained contact with Voyager 2 after losing it for a week

    On 21 July, NASA lost touch with the Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is nearly 20 billion kilometres away from Earth. Now, operators have heard from Voyager 2 again - the spacecraft is still working ...

  11. Voyager 2: Nasa picks up 'heartbeat' signal after sending wrong ...

    Voyager 2 has stopped receiving commands or sending data back to Earth. Nasa has picked up a "heartbeat" signal from its Voyager 2 probe after it lost contact with it billions of miles away from ...

  12. NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft

    As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet. ... the space agency said Voyager 2 is programmed to ...

  13. NASA loses contact with Voyager Two after a programming error on Earth

    NASA recently lost contact with its Voyager 2 spacecraft. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Suzanne Dodd, project manager for the Voyager Interstellar mission, about what happened.

  14. How NASA Regained Contact With Lost Voyager 2 Probe After Screw-up

    NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reconnected with the Voyager 2 space probe after losing it. The space agency lost contact on July 21 after accidentally sending a wrong command. The team was able ...

  15. NASA listens for Voyager 2 spacecraft after wrong command cuts contact

    Updated 3:01 PM PDT, July 31, 2023. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away. Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space, Voyager 2 has been out of touch ever since flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command more than a week ago that ...

  16. NASA regains contact with Voyager 2 after it went dark for ...

    NASA/JPL-Caltech. NASA has reestablished connection with Voyager 2 after a tense two weeks of not hearing anything from the probe. On July 21st, the agency lost contact with Voyager 2 following a ...

  17. Voyager 2: NASA detects signal after losing contact with probe

    NASA detects faint 'heartbeat' signal of Voyager 2 after losing contact with probe. Nearly two weeks after NASA lost contact with one of its Voyager probes, the space agency said it has detected a ...

  18. NASA accidentally lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a

    Science. NASA accidentally lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a wrong command. It could mean the end of its 46-year-old mission. Marianne Guenot and Jenny McGrath. Aug 1, 2023, 10 ...

  19. NASA hears Voyager 2 "heartbeat" after losing communication with

    NASA celebrates 1 year of stunning images from James Webb Space Telescope 02:21. NASA picked up a carrier signal from its Voyager 2 probe days after the agency lost contact with the spacecraft ...

  20. NASA Loses Contact With Voyager 2 After Commands Misdirect Probe

    In the best case, you recover it right away. Worst case, you never hear from your hardware again. On July 21, controllers lost contact with Voyager 2, out in the depths of space. Now they're waiting for a reset to catch Voyager 2's next message when it "phones home". So, what happened? The spacecraft, which is nearly 20 billion kilometers away ...

  21. Contact Briefly Lost with Voyager 2

    This loss of contact is not without precedent: In 2020, NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 for seven months. Fortunately, the spacecraft's computer automatically re-orients itself several times a year. The next such reset is coming up on October 15th. The Madrid Station in NASA's global Deep Space Network. NASA.

  22. NASA Uses 'Interstellar Shout' to Contact Voyager 2

    NASA has lost contact with the Voyager 2 space probe, but thankfully, it's only temporary. In a mission update, NASA says a series of planned commands sent to Voyager 2 on July 21 "inadvertently ...

  23. NASA loses contact with Voyager 2 but detects a "heartbeat"

    NASA has lost contact with its Voyager 2 deep-space probe. On July 21, 2023, Mission Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) sent a series of commands that "inadvertently" caused the ...

  24. NASA's Voyager 2 Marks 46 Years Of Its Launch; Reliving The Probe's

    Location of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 as of August 21. Image: NASA. Fast forward to August 2024, the probe is more than 20 billion km away from Earth. At its current speed of nearly 15.5 km per second, Scientists estimate that it would take Voyager 2 about 19,390 years to travel one light year.

  25. SpaceX to rescue: Astronauts stranded on ISS due to Boeing flaws

    The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, developed by Elon Musk's company, is set to transport two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) for 80 days. They were initially scheduled to ...

  26. Personal Stories from the Mission

    From the first detection of active volcanoes outside Earth to the first up-close images of Neptune, the 40-year Odyssey of NASA's Voyager mission is full of unforgettable memories. Voyager 1, the farthest human-made object, launched on Sept. 5, 1977, and Voyager 2, the second farthest, launched on Aug. 20, 1977. In honor of their 40th […]

  27. NASA Dumped $199 Billion Into This Program, and ...

    NASA has landed 5 rovers on Mars: Sojourner (1997), Spirit (2004-2010), Opportunity (2004-2018), Curiosity (2012-present), and Perseverance (2021-present). On average these missions have ...

  28. Why NASA Is Taking so Long to Get Boeing's 2 Astronauts Back to Earth

    The NASA officials who must make this call — ideally by the end of the month — are thinking back to the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Because of damage to one of the vehicle's wings, that ...

  29. NASA Decides to Keep 2 Astronauts in Space Until February, Nixes Return

    With station supply runs already under its belt, SpaceX aced its first of now nine astronaut flights in 2020, while Boeing got bogged down in design flaws that set the company back more than $1 ...

  30. Comparing two proposed NASA missions to Jupiter's moon Io

    Io is well-known as the most geologically active world in the solar system, and it's not even close. It has more than 400 active volcanoes. Io is the closest moon to Jupiter, and the planet's ...