NASA mysteriously fixes Voyager-2's interstellar glitch from 11.5 billion miles away

In yet ar stupendous effort, NASA has mand to fix its Voyr-2 probe remotely, almost 11.5 billion miles away from its location, this week as per international reports. probe has reportedly been acting in an unexpected manner as it failed to carry out a maneuver as planned on January 25. Moreover, glitch in probe was detected by craft’s fault detection software which was relayed to NASA.

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What did NASA do?

Reports state that on detection of glitch, craft's fault detection software shutdown Voyr 2's science instruments. Soon, NASA engineers h mand to successfully powered down one of systems and h also mand to reboot some of science instruments. But it h failed to gar any new data, as per reports.

Subsequently, NASA informed on February 5, "Mission operators report that Voyr 2 continues to be stable and that communications between Earth and craft are good. craft has resumed taking science data. Science teams are w evaluating health of instruments following ir brief shutoff".

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What is Voyr 2?

Launched in 1977, Voyr-2 is twin of Voyr-1 which was launched a few weeks prior to it. Both probes were launched to perform a 'grand tour' of outer solar system. Both craft have conducted flybys of Jupiter and Saturn - with Voyr 2 successfully zooming past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, making it only craft to have h a close look of icy planets.

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Soon, both probes continued, entering extended interstellar missions. While Voyr 1 flew into interstellar in August 2012, Voyr-2  followed it six years later in 2018. Voyr 1 and Voyr 2 are currently about 13.8 billion miles (22.2 billion kilometers) and 11.5 billion miles (13.5 billion km) from Earth, respectively. It takes more than 17 hours for light to travel from Earth to Voyr 2, as per reports.

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