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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2 (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
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NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2::Once the spacecraft’s antenna is realigned with Earth, communications should resume.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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.

so basically... "g'day mate! give it a burl and take a good squizz over here!". did I get that one right?

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah it was more like " Oi cunt, the fuck you doing!? straighten yourself out mate! for fucks sake!"

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Satellites on the piss up there, needs to get its shit sorted.”

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Alright... who gave the satellite a bag of goon?... and where did that clothesline come from?

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

First intergalactic game of Goon of Fortune.

[–] ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Token Aussie reporting in. Good effort.

Given this is was described as a shout this probably more of a 'COOOO-EEEEEEEee!'

Or maybe a 'OI OVER HERE YA CUNT', but I cant speak to the tension level at the Canberra DSC.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

LOL! perfect. thanks for the education. :-)

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well last I saw from the aussie instance they got all offended somebody used the word cunt in a post title.

I tried to find it but didn't see the post in my comment history. Just thought it was pretty ridiculous.

[–] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 1 points 2 years ago

But cunt is our national word tho!

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You missed the best part that it only takes 18 hours for the signal to travel 20 billion kilometers. That's the longest two way communication in history and honestly that's not going to change soon.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

looks at TCP 3-way handshake in absolute horror

[–] anlumo@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

Also puts into perspective that many stars we observe are millions of light years away.

[–] JoeyGoodbody@lemmy.studio 9 points 2 years ago

That's absolutely mind bending that they have the accuracy to shoot a beam of information that far, and are able to hit the craft, while it's spinning