The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years.

“We enlisted the help of the (Deep Space Network) and Radio Science groups to help to see if we could hear a signal from Voyager 2,” said Suzanne Dodd, Voyager’s project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “This was successful in that we see the ‘heartbeat’ signal from the spacecraft. So, we know the spacecraft is alive and operating. This buoyed our spirits.”

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    1 year ago

    God I would love something like that in a movie.

    Typical start where the villain exposits too much, hinting at the locations of 5 special items. The plan is obvious but the heroes spell it out anyway: they need to do collect items 1-5 to stop him.

    Each item is increasing difficult with each one but the heroes persevere, just barely surviving 4.

    They now need to find 5 but the clues don’t make sense and they are running out of time. The nerdy hero has a revelation. “…I think he means the ISS”

    They get in touch with the nerdy hero’s old boss who just happens to work at NASA!

    The engineer listens calmy and replies, “Yes, that does sound like a description of the ISS.”

    The heroes plead, “We have to go NOW or the world will end!”

    “Yeahhhh so…you can’t just launch a rocket. It’s raining in Cape Canaveral and no one is going to approve that. Hell, none of you have had any training so you’d probably pass out and die on the way. Sorry.”

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      1 year ago

      Psh, everyone knows its easier to train people to be astronauts than train astronauts to do other tasks. I saw a documentary about this in the Summer of '98.