Science
NASA manages to phone Voyager 2 – Fudzilla
You are probably heading to a better place than earth right now NASA has managed to make contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft for the first time since mid-March….
The spacecraft has been flying solo while the 230-foot-wide deep space radio antenna used to communicate with it has been offline for repairs and upgrades. On 29 October NASA mission operators sent a series of commands and Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the call and executed them without problems.
The team sent these commands using new hardware recently installed on Deep Space Station 43 located in Canberra, Australia the only dish in the world that can send commands to Voyager…
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