Voyager 2 Probe Talks to Upgraded NASA Network After 8 Months of Silence – ExtremeTech

NASA launched the Voyager probes in the 1970s, taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets to fling the spacecraft out of the solar system. After more than 40 years, these groundbreaking explorers are still alive and talking to the team here on Earth. We can say that with certainty now that NASA has made significant progress upgrading one of its deep-space communication arrays. NASA just said “hello” to Voyager 2, and the probe said it back. 
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