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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 | Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess::Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I’m being glib here, but from 32 billion km away, a 2deg error means Voyager 2 is pointing to a spot 1.12 billion km away from Earth (at right angles). That’s roughly the distance from Earth to Saturn 😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be cool to launch a satellite between Voyager and Earth that could act as a communication relay the farther away Voyager flies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And then send another one to relay wit that one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be honest: keeping the chain alive would be great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From 32 billion kilometres away, to be misaligned by only two degrees is impressive.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not everything is a joke...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The space org added that Voyager 2's trajectory is expected to remain unchanged

Yeah, if that starts changing then something very serious is going on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess

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

Thankfully the phone regularly probes home to fix this sort of mess

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully the home regularly phones probe to mess this sort of fix.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Regularly the phone thankfully probes home to fix this mess of sorts.