{"id":115500,"date":"2020-11-06T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nasa-finally-makes-contact-with-voyager-2-after-longest-radio-silence-in-30-years"},"modified":"2020-11-06T07:22:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T15:22:27","slug":"nasa-finally-makes-contact-with-voyager-2-after-longest-radio-silence-in-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/nasa-finally-makes-contact-with-voyager-2-after-longest-radio-silence-in-30-years","title":{"rendered":"NASA finally makes contact with Voyager 2 after longest radio silence in 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-finally-makes-contact-with-voyager-2-after-longest-radio-silence-in-30-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/voyager-2-already-isolated-in-interstellar-space-is-about-to-become-even-more-alone\">no way of making contact<\/a> with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown in communications \u2013 lasting since March, almost eight months and a whole pandemic ago \u2013 wasn\u2019t due to some rogue malfunction, nor any run-in with interstellar space weirdness (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/for-some-reason-the-density-of-space-is-higher-just-outside-the-solar-system\">although there\u2019s that too<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft. The breakdown in communications \u2013 lasting since March, almost eight months and a whole pandemic ago \u2013 wasn\u2019t due to some rogue malfunction, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}