Voyager 2

NASA has reported a communication problem with the Voyager 2 spacecraft. Starting in April, the science reports from the probe have become unreadable. NASA has thus commanded the craft to send reports on its health and status only for the time being.

Voyager 2 was designed and built for a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, but ended up visiting Uranus and Neptune as well. It has performed extraordinarily well for 33 years in deep space. Voyager 2 and its sister probe, Voyager 1, are now flying through the heliosphere, which marks the edge of the Sun's dominant influence. After passing through that, both probes will be in true interstellar space.