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NASA has resumed communication with the record-setting orbital spacecraft after several months with no means of establishing contact with Voyager 2.
(Photo : NASA-JPL/Caltech)
This was Voyager 2 when it was being assembled at NASA s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida back in 1977. 40 years later, the spacecraft reached the edge of our solar system.
The connectivity collapse, lasting almost eight months and a whole pandemic after March, was not attributed to any rogue fault, nor some outer space anomaly run-in (although there is that too).
It was more of a case of regular maintenance in this example. And then, since the Voyager 2 is one of the farthest-flying Earth-made object in existence, leaving behind the planet and indeed the whole solar system, nothing else is really normal.
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