Due to the wrong order of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Voyager-2 spacecraft has reached 19.9 billion kilometers away. Along with this, the spacecraft’s antenna also moved by 2 percent, due to which the spacecraft’s communication with NASA was broken. But on Tuesday, a heartbeat signal was received from Voyager-2 1997.
Due to a technical glitch, the spacecraft could not send space information to the Deep Space Network. Meanwhile, after several days on Tuesday, the sound of Voyager 2 was heard in space.
NASA informed that Voyager-2 is being searched through its largest antenna in Canberra, Australia. Currently, it takes more than 18 hours to send any signal from Earth to the spacecraft.
The spacecraft’s signal has been tracked on the Deep Space Network, project manager Suzanne Dodd said via email on Tuesday. This means that the 46-year-old spacecraft is still working.
Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager-2’s antenna back toward Earth.
Scientists have said that if the spacecraft cannot be brought under control, they will have to wait until October for the automatic spacecraft reset. However, scientists believe that the spacecraft’s antenna is only 2 percent off-kilter. Voyager 2 was launched in 1977 to search for other planets in space.
Along with Voyager 2, Voyager 1 was also sent into space. Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth. In 2018, Voyager 2 crossed the solar system and reached interstellar space.
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