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Earth to Voyager 2: After a Year in the Darkness, We Can Talk to You Again – The New York Times
NASA’s sole means of sending commands to the distant space probe, launched 44 years ago, is being restored on Friday.
I think there was probably a big sigh of relief there, Mr. Nagle said. And we were very pleased to be able to confirm that the spacecraft was still talking to us.
The work got high marks from NASA officials in the United States.
The DSN folks in Canberra did a remarkable job under the pandemic conditions just to upgrade DSS 43, said Suzanne Dodd, the Voyager mission project manager and director of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ive got 100 percent confidence…
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