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Voyager 2
George Dvorsky
A radio antenna in Australia in dire need of upgrades will be offline for the next 11 months, during which time NASA mission controllers won’t be able to transmit commands to the Voyager 2 probe, which is currently in interstellar space.
The Voyagers 1 and 2 spacecraft measured the Sun sending a pulse like a “tsunami” into the interstellar medium, according to a new paper.
It’s astounding to think that both Voyager probes, launched back in 1977, are not only still intact, but sending valuable data back to Earth. It wasn’t long ago that Voyager 1 entered interstellar space, leaving the solar system’s protective heliosphere. Soon, Voyager 2 will join it, with the probe’s sensors…
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