Voyager 2 is acting strange, and it’s up to NASA to figure out why

[Mike Wehner]

It's not often that a NASA mission is still up and running over four decades after launch, but the space agency's Voyager twins are anything but ordinary. The twin spacecraft were launched way back in 1977 and they've been speeding away from Earth the entire time.

Lately, however, one of the spacecraft began acting up. Voyager 2 signaled its handlers back on Earth that it had encountered a problem with its autonomous systems. This is exactly what the spacecraft is designed to do when it runs into an issue, and NASA engineers back on Earth are working on getting Voyager 2 back on its feet, so to speak.

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