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NASA calls Voyager 2, and the spacecraft answers from interstellar space – Ars Technica
The spacecraft is so far south it can only talk to one Earth-bound antenna.
Enlarge/ DSS43 is a 70-meter-wide radio antenna at the Deep Space Network’s Canberra facility in Australia.
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been gone from Earth for more than 43 years, and it now lies 125 astronomical units from our planet. That is 125 times the distance between the Earth and Sun.
Understandably, this distance makes it rather difficult for NASA to communicate with its far-flung spacecraftthere is a time delay of more than 17 hours. However, with Voyager…
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