The space agency had expected a regular reset of the probe in October to fix the error Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than ...

Voyager 2 hasn't fared much better, suffering from its own thankfully temporary communication blackout last year. But despite scientists' best efforts, little can be done about the two probes ...

The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s energy budget keeps dropping by about 4 Watt/year, as the plutonium in its nuclear power source is steadily dropping as the isotope decays. With 4 Watt of power less ...

Voyager 2 only recently did it ... Although New Horizons was the fastest spacecraft ever launched in 2006, it continues to lose ground to the older missions. The reason: the Voyagers got a ...

The 1800-pound Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral on September 5, 1977. Voyager 2 preceded it into space by 16 days ...

American space agency NASA said yesterday that it was able to make contact with Voyager 2 for the first time since March. The agency revealed that it sent a series of commands to the probe on 29 ...

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