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Mar 10, 2024 · Eyes on Voyager. This near real-time 3D data visualization uses actual spacecraft and planet positions to show the location of both Voyager 1 and 2 and many other spacecraft exploring our galactic neighborhood. Learn More
- NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause
UPDATE, Aug. 4, 2023: NASA has reestablished full...
- NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Pause
Aug 4, 2023 · Nasa is back in full contact with its lost Voyager 2 probe months earlier than expected, the space agency said. In July a wrong command was made to the spacecraft, sent to explore space in 1977 ...
This page shows Voyager 2 location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details).
Jul 28, 2023 · UPDATE, Aug. 4, 2023: NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. The agency’s Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia, sent the equivalent of an interstellar “shout” more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) to Voyager 2, instructing the spacecraft to reorient itself and turn its antenna back to Earth.
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Aug 2, 2023 · A NASA image of one of the twin Voyager space probes. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after mistakenly pointing its antenna 2 degrees away from Earth.
- Emily Olson
Aug 4, 2023 · “Voyager’s back,” project scientist Linda Spilker chimed in. Voyager 2 has been hurtling through space since its launch in 1977 to explore the outer solar system. Launched two weeks later, its twin, Voyager 1, is now the most distant spacecraft — 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away — and still in contact.
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Aug 3, 2023 · Voyager 2, which is nearly 46 years into its mission, is roughly 12.4 billion miles from Earth. In 2018, the spacecraft left the heliosphere, which is the outer layer of particles and magnetic ...