NASA receives a 'sign of life' by Voyager 2 again

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Nasa empfängt wieder ein „Lebenszeichen“ von Voyager 2 Berlin. Wegen eines Missgeschicks hat die US-Weltraumbehörde Nasa den Kontakt zur Raumsonde „Voyager 2“ zunächst verloren. Wie die Behörde mitteilte, wurde die Antenne der Sonde durch eine Serie geplanter Kommandos um zwei Grad von der Erde weggedreht. So sei die Sonde weder in der Lage, Signale zu empfangen, noch könne sie Daten an die Erde schicken. Aber mithilfe eines Netzwerks von Antennen ist inzwischen ein „Herzschlag“-Signal der Sonde registriert worden, sagte „Voyager“-Projektmanagerin Suzanne Dodd am Dienstag der Nachrichtenagentur AFP. „Wir wissen also, dass die Sonde lebt und funktioniert.“ Die Sonde ist ohnehin …
NASA receives a “sign of life” by Voyager 2 Berlin again. Because of a misfortune, the US space authority NASA initially lost contact with the "Voyager 2" spacecraft. As the authority announced, the antenna of the probe was turned away by a series of planned commands by two degrees from the earth. The probe is neither able to receive signals, nor could it send data to the earth. But with the help of a network of antennas, a "heartbeat" signal of the probe has now been registered, said "Voyager" project manager Suzanne Dodd on Tuesday of the AFP news agency. "So we know that the probe lives and works." The probe is anyway ... (Symbolbild/MB)

NASA receives a “sign of life” by Voyager 2

Berlin. Because of a misfortune, the US space authority NASA initially lost contact with the "Voyager 2" spacecraft. As the authority announced, the antenna of the probe was turned away by a series of planned commands by two degrees from the earth. The probe is neither able to receive signals, nor could it send data to the earth.

But with the help of a network of antennas, a “heartbeat” signal of the probe has now been registered, said “Voyager” project manager Suzanne Dodd on Tuesday of the AFP news agency. "So we know that the probe lives and works." The probe is already programmed in such a way that it changes its course several times a year. The antenna should always be aligned towards the earth. The next new adjustment is scheduled to take place on October 15th.

The Voyager 2 room probe is about 19.9 billion kilometers from Earth. It was shot into space as early as 1977 and is therefore the second most distant spacecraft. Only the Voyager 1 (24 billion kilometers) has passed further into space.

Voyager 1 started on September 5, 1977, Voyager 2 already on August 20, 1977. Both probes are unmanned. The aim of the two probes started in 1977 was to explore planets of the outer solar system. After that, NASA simply extended the mission, so that it finally flew beyond the border of the solar system. Now collect data from the interstellar room.