Voyager 2 Completes Switch to Backup Thruster Set PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft. Deep Space Network personnel sent commands to the spacecraft to make the change on Nov. 4 and received confirmation today that the switch has been…
From the Discovery Channel series “Rocket Science”: Alan Bean describes the lightning strike that knocked out power on the second lunar NASA landing mission shortly after launch. (www.foolishearthling.com)
LISTEN SPACEWEATHER RADIO (Live) Live Radar Audio Feed–how do we do it? It’s simple. The Air Force Space Surveillance Radar transmits a 216.98 MHz signal into the heavens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Meteors, satellites and spacecraft passing overhead reflect those signals back down to Earth. The radar’s primary antenna is located…