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The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years.

“We enlisted the help of the (Deep Space Network) and Radio Science groups to help to see if we could hear a signal from Voyager 2,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “This was successful in that we see the ‘heartbeat’ signal from the spacecraft. So, we know the spacecraft is alive and operating. This buoyed our spirits.”

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Amazing to think how that probe is going to drift in the universe for billions of years.

[–] partial_accumen 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its even amazing to understand that it is one of only two man made object that are no longer in our Solar System. Both passed beyond our sun's solar winds years ago.

[–] Madison420 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More amazing when you realize one of those objects drifts into the system of an advanced semi organic society who rebuild it and make it an AI then send it back out into the universe to continue it's mission.

I watched a documentary on it when I was younger, highly recommend.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Knew what it was before I even clicked on it. Well played, Madison420. Well played, indeed.

[–] psycho_driver 1 points 1 year ago

Both passed beyond our sun’s solar winds years ago.

It even managed to circumvent the deadly winds of Uranus.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’ll be back. Star Trek made a historical documentary about it.

[–] JustAManOnAToilet 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a historical documentary on something that will happen hurts my brain.

[–] surewhynotlem 8 points 1 year ago

"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father." - HHGTG