Experts with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, and the agency's Deep Space Network (DSN) confirm that the Voyager 2 spacecraft has received and completed instructions sent to it on November 4, regarding the switch to a backup set of thrusters.
These particular motors are respon... |
15 November 2011
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Officials with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, say that they have recently sent a new set of commands to the Voyager 2 space probe, which is currently located on the outskirts of the solar system. The command called on the spacecraft to switch to a backup set of thrusters.
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7 November 2011
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A quarter of a century ago, a NASA spacecraft flew past one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system, the gas giant Uranus. The Voyager 2 spacecraft, on its way to exit the heliosphere, took the only close-up images of this planet and its moons.The mission, which is still ongoing, is managed by experts at th... |
22 January 2011
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The Voyager 2 spacecraft is one of NASA's landmark missions, and the second reiteration of the successful Voyager 1 mission. The space probe is currently located no less than 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion kilometers) away from our planet, at the very edge of the solar system. It is constantly sending new data ... |
7 May 2010
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A not so unusual but rather unexpected discovery has been made recently regarding the shock wave generated by the solar wind, as it meets the emissions given off by close-by stars. It seems that the general area of the termination shock through which Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 passed on their way out of the solar system... |
11 December 2007
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Viewed as one of the most productive explorers ever launched by mankind, Voyager 2 was the probe that set, in 1989, the point where all the planets in the solar system had been visited at least once by a spacecraft. On its path across the solar system, the spacecraft Voyager 2 is now at a distance of 83.5 astronomica... |
28 November 2007
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