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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2 (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2::Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The agency’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an interstellar “shout” more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) to Voyager 2, instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself and turn its antenna back to Earth.

so basically... "g'day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!". did I get that one right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Nah it was more like " Oi cunt, the fuck you doing!? straighten yourself out mate! for fucks sake!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Token Aussie reporting in. Good effort.

Given this is was described as a shout this probably more of a 'COOOO-EEEEEEEee!'

Or maybe a 'OI OVER HERE YA CUNT', but I cant speak to the tension level at the Canberra DSC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

LOL! perfect. thanks for the education. :-)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well last I saw from the aussie instance they got all offended somebody used the word cunt in a post title.

I tried to find it but didn't see the post in my comment history. Just thought it was pretty ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But cunt is our national word tho!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's absolutely mind bending that they have the accuracy to shoot a beam of information that far, and are able to hit the craft, while it's spinning