Nov 11 1998
From The Space Library
Ground controllers in Madrid, Spain, lost contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft as it approached the edge of the solar system but were able to reestablish communication. The probe was "powering down to conserve its plutonium energy source" when controllers lost contact. NASA had launched Voyager 2 in 1977. After the craft had toured Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, NASA located it traveling toward the edge of the solar system, at about 5.2 billion miles (8.4 billion kilometers) from Earth. Scientists did not know why controllers had temporarily lost communication with the craft.
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