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#Voyager2: Lost contact. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 29 July 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#Voyager2: Lost contact. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/contact-lost-with-voyager-2-hopefully-temporarily/

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0:00.0

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0:07.4

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0:12.3

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0:16.8

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0:24.8

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0:34.6

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batcher.

0:37.4

Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched 1977.

0:41.6

Voyager 1 Bob Zimmerman educates me is outside of the solar system, outside the bow wave.

0:48.3

This is 13 years to celebrate behind the black, and a dominant theme in those years has been

0:55.6

the fate of Voyager 1 and 2. Why? Because of the original Star Trek movie that turned on,

1:02.6

I won't ruin it for you, a plot about Vigia himself. Vigia 1, Vigia 2 was never exact.

1:08.5

Now we have up to date news of Vigia 2. Excuse me, Voyager 2. Bob, what's happened?

1:14.9

If this might be bad news, it might actually be the end of the mission, might not. We have to cross

1:21.0

a thing, isn't hope. But in sending out planned commands to Voyager 2, which is kind of outside the

1:28.6

solar system into planetary space, it's along the edge of the heliosphere, and depending on the

1:34.4

solar wind, sometimes it washes back over Voyager 2, and it's back in the solar system, and other

1:39.4

times it's out, it's mostly out. But they sent out planned commands to Voyager 2, and unfortunately

1:46.8

the commands had some error, and it caused the antenna to point two degrees away from Earth,

1:52.8

not directly at the Earth, and we're talking about billions of miles here, so the amount of

1:57.0

margin of error is significant. There's a very small margin of error, you've got to get it right,

2:03.7

and so because it's not lined up with the Earth, they've lost contact with Voyager 2 completely.

2:09.7

Does this mean its mission is ending? Maybe, but maybe not. The spacecraft is programmed that every

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