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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 38 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

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

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 3 points 1 year ago

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

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

First intergalactic game of Goon of Fortune.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

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 1 year ago

looks at TCP 3-way handshake in absolute horror

[-] anlumo@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net 16 points 1 year ago

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 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 1 year ago

But cunt is our national word tho!

[-] JoeyGoodbody@lemmy.studio 8 points 1 year 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

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