‘Big Bang fix’ could be buying more time for the farthest spacecraft from Earth
Engineers freed enough power for Voyager 2 to keep three instruments running an extra year after a heater and device swap.
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Four astronauts just went farther from Earth than any human in history — and on the way home, they asked to name a crater after one of their late wives
“It’s a bright spot on the moon. And we would like to call it ‘Carroll.'” Jeremy Hansen said those words into a radio to Mission Control, and his voice was shaking too hard to get through the sentence cleanly. He was speaking for the whole crew of Artemis II, a mission that had just carried four astronauts farther from Earth than any human being in history. What he was asking for had nothing to do with the record they had just broken. This sprin…
The crew of Artemis II set a record for the distance from Earth and proposed naming the lunar crater Carroll after the wife of Commander Reed Weizmann. The name is yet to be considered by the IAU. ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1)
The "Big Bang" electric manoeuvre worked on Voyager 2, saving one of its last instruments and offering at least a year's respite to the probe before Voyager's turn. It was a dared bet, made more than 20 billion kilometers from the Earth, but it was not the same.
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