Lost Contact with Voyager 2: NASA’s Latest Update

Jakarta –

NASA had lost contact with the probe Voyager 2 after the space agency went wrong. Voyager 2, along with its sister Voyager 1, is the most distant probe to have penetrated the outer layers of our Solar System on its way.

Last month, the spacecraft, which has been exploring space since 1977, was sent the wrong command, tilting its antenna to a point two degrees from Earth. As a result, Voyager 2 stopped receiving commands or sending data.

NASA hopes communications will resume when the probe resets in October. Voyager 2 is currently more than 9.9 billion km from Earth and flying at a speed of about 55,346 km/h through interstellar space.

Since last July 21, as quoted detikINET from the BBC, the probe was no longer able to take commands or send data back to NASA’s Deep Space Network, the giant worldwide array of radio antennas.

While waiting to be reconnected, NASA hopes the spacecraft loaded with science instruments remains in good working order and on the planned trajectory in which it is hurtling through the universe.

Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, are the only spacecraft to ever penetrate beyond the heliosphere, the protective bubble of particles and magnetic fields generated by the Sun. They reached interstellar space in 2018 and 2012 respectively.

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have flown past Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 24 billion kilometers from Earth. That makes it the most distant spacecraft created by mankind. Both planes were made to research the universe.

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2023-08-01 15:00:17
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