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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    “History records a small previously unknown town and school outside London was decimated in 2053 when NASA space probe Voyager 2 inexorably changed course doing a U-turn beyond the Termination Shock of our Solar system and started accelerating quickly back toward Earth. At the time of impact Voyager 2 was traveling faster that 35,000 miles per hour.”

    “While scientists continue to argue over what principle was at play here even calling into question a number of established cosmological models, witnesses say that 50 years prior a young man was seen pointing a stick at the sky and yelling ‘Accio Voyager 2!’. This has been dismissed as coincidence as the world still came to terms with the loss of so many lives. Prime Minister and our Dark Lord Voldemort, may he live forever, was unavailable for comment.”