The Voyager spacecraft as an artist rendered it.
This seemingly antique spacecraft was launched to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
However, a surprising heartbeat detected in space gave NASA hope of reestablishing a connection.
The Voyager spacecraft as an artist rendered it. (Photo:NASA/JPL-Caltech)
The disconnect occurred on July 21.
It entered interstellar space in 2018, 12.4 million miles from Earth.
Luckily, they didn’t have to wait that long.
The August 20, 1977 launch. (Photo:NASA/JPL-Caltech)
NASA regularly scans the sky.
In doing so, they detected a blip of a signal, an intrepid call of a still-kicking machine.
From Voyager 2 to Earth, the heartbeat signal took 18 hours.
Theyre like the spacecraft with nine lives.
Luckily, NASA heard a heartbeat signal and was able to reconnect after 2 weeks of radio silence.
The August 20, 1977 launch.
