NASA has again been successful in establishing the communications channel back on Voyager 2.
Context
NASA has again been successful in establishing the communications channel back on Voyager 2.
What is Voyager 2?
- NASA's Voyager 2 is the second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.
- It is designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to study the outer solar system.
- Voyager 2 targeted Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
- On December 10, 2018, the spacecraft joined its twin—Voyager 1—as the only human-made objects to enter the space between the stars.
- Both Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 hold the records for the farthest a spacecraft has ever traveled and for the longest operating mission.
Scientific Instrumentsin Voyager 2
- Imaging Science System (ISS)
- Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS)
- Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer (IRIS)
- Planetary Radio Astronomy Experiment (PRA)
- Photopolarimeter (PPS)
- Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG)
- Plasma Spectrometer (PLS)
- Low-Energy Charged Particles Experiment (LECP)
- Plasma Waves Experiment (PWS)
- Cosmic Ray Telescope (CRS)
- Radio Science System (RSS)
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How the Communication between Earth and Voyager 2 takes place?
- Voyager 2 can only receive commands from Earth via one antenna in the entire world.
- It is called DSS 43 and it is in Canberra, Australia.
- It is part of the Deep Space Network or DSN.
