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Tmcom

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Voyager 2, is alive and well

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-c … twork-dish

They are repairing the dish at Canberra, Australia, but have sent a signal with a reply.

And the rendering software on this site is pretty cool, or you can move Voyager 2, in and out and explore all our planets, etc.

Here is a screenshot of Mars, sigh.

tahanson43206

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

For tmcom re #1

Thank you for your post, with that neat image, and for the link to the NASA announcement.

I appreciated the chance to catch up on what I gather is a major upgrade to the Canberra dish and associated hardware. 

https://www.nasa.gov/voyager

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

Calla Cofield
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
626-808-2469
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Last Updated: Nov. 3, 2020
Editor: Tony Greicius
Tags:  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Moon to Mars, SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation), Voyager

It is good to know that the upgraded antenna will be fully online in time for the Perseverance landing at Mars in 2021.

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Tmcom

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

For tmcom re #1

Thank you for your post, with that neat image, and for the link to the NASA announcement.

I appreciated the chance to catch up on what I gather is a major upgrade to the Canberra dish and associated hardware. 

https://www.nasa.gov/voyager

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

Calla Cofield
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
626-808-2469
calla.e.cofield@jpl.nasa.gov

2020-207

Last Updated: Nov. 3, 2020
Editor: Tony Greicius
Tags:  Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Moon to Mars, SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation), Voyager

It is good to know that the upgraded antenna will be fully online in time for the Perseverance landing at Mars in 2021.

(th)

No probs, and you need to click on the planet or sub planet twice with the mouse to see it up close, (the real life rendering of the Pluto probe is pretty impressive, you can move around it, etc).

SpaceNut

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

With out the deep space communications dish we would not be able to get all of this information form the many probes that we are communicating with.

Hopefully we will not make these just one time visits so as to learn more about what we already know from these probes that have already gotten from them.

Tmcom

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

With out the deep space communications dish we would not be able to get all of this information form the many probes that we are communicating with.

Hopefully we will not make these just one time visits so as to learn more about what we already know from these probes that have already gotten from them.

Agreed.

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

NASA's iconic Voyager 1 marks 45 years in space
https://www.space.com/voyager-1-45-year … nniversary
"Today, as both Voyagers explore interstellar space, they are providing humanity with observations of uncharted territory," Linda Spilker, Voyager's deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, said in a statement (opens in new tab).

SpaceNut

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

They finally figured out the data corruption problem and it was a defective computer that somehow got reactivated. They switched back to the other unit and it's working fine once more.

Mars_B4_Moon

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2.

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-miss … ions-pause

Mars_B4_Moon

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

https://www.ijpr.org/npr-news/2024-03-0 … re-worried

Calliban

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

15 billion miles distant, is an impressive 161AU.  Almost 5x further than Neptune!

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tahanson43206

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

This may be the same report that Mars_B4_Moon found, in post #9

It was sent to me by a relative...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried
Voyager 1 has been traveling through space since 1977, and some scientists hoped it could keep sending back science data for 50 years. But a serious glitch has put that milestone in jeopardy.

Read in NPR: https://apple.news/AXEuAysTcTHW6V50cDrF8Bw

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What I found of particular interest is that someone at NASA is thinking about asking for funding of another probe to head out to deep space. The new design would travel faster, and (hopefully) have more robust self-healing capability.

Yup! The links are to the same story.  It is worth reading whichever link you follow.

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tahanson43206

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Re: Voyager 2, is alive and well

Update .... I found a report that engineers were able to persuade Voyager (?) to dump it's memory.

Someone was still able to read the dump.

There is a theory that one of three sections of one of the computers may be failing, and possibly that system can be bypassed.

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