Voyager 2 bounces back from glitch in interstellar space

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Voyager 2 is taking science data again after a glitch knocked the probe offline in late January.

Voyager 2 bounces back from glitch in interstellar space : Read more

 

[rod]

Voyager 2 is taking science data again after a glitch knocked the probe offline in late January.

Voyager 2 bounces back from glitch in interstellar space : Read more

"The two spacecraft are still going strong after more than 42 years in space, but they can't keep up their pioneering work forever. The radioisotope thermoelectric generators that power the Voyagers are running low on juice and will likely be tapped out by the mid-2020s, NASA officials have said. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are currently about 13.8 billion miles (22.2 billion kilometers) and 11.5 billion miles (13.5 billion km) from Earth, respectively. It takes more than 17 hours for light to travel from Earth to Voyager 2, meaning that mission team members have to wait a day and a half to see if their commands work."

Nice going Voyager 2, no solar powered space probe here

 

[David Slu]

Interesting article, but 11.5 billion miles doesn't equal 13.5 billion km

 

[Dwight Huth]

NASA should send software updates to Voyager II that would include the newest Machine Learning algorithms.

 

[rod]

"The two spacecraft are still going strong after more than 42 years in space, but they can't keep up their pioneering work forever. The radioisotope thermoelectric generators that power the Voyagers are running low on juice and will likely be tapped out by the mid-2020s, NASA officials have said. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are currently about 13.8 billion miles (22.2 billion kilometers) and 11.5 billion miles (13.5 billion km) from Earth, respectively. It takes more than 17 hours for light to travel from Earth to Voyager 2, meaning that mission team members have to wait a day and a half to see if their commands work."

Nice going Voyager 2, no solar powered space probe here

FYI, 22.2E+9 kilometers is 148.4 AU distance from earth. 11.5 billion miles is closer to 18.5E+9 kilometers or 123.66 AU distance from earth.

 

[wsk1234]

NASA should send software updates to Voyager II that would include the newest Machine Learning algorithms.

Good luck with that on 68kB memory...

 

[Jan Steinman]

NASA should send software updates to Voyager II that would include the newest Machine Learning algorithms.

Yea, that should fit in 40 kilobytes just fine!