mcesh@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2 | Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of messEnglish
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1 year agoBy my napkin math, from 32 billion km away, a 2deg error means Voyager 2 is pointing to a spot 1.12 billion km away from Earth (at right angles). That’s roughly the distance from Earth to Saturn 😅
The first one was done in Jan 2022. The patient, David Bennet, survived for 2 months.