Voyager 2 contacted after seven months

Published: Nov. 10, 2020, 9 p.m.

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Voyager 2 contacted for the first time since March - says \\u201chello\\u201d\\nWe reported back in February how scientists at NASA\\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory were working flat out repairing Voyager 2. The only antenna that can command the 43 year old spacecraft has been offline since March undergoing repairs and upgrades \\u2013 but now the Voyager team have called the craft and Voyager 2 returned a signal confirming it had received the "call" and executed the commands without issue. Voyager\\u2019s Project Manager Suzanne Dodds explains how they did this and what happens next.

Danielle George MBE \\u2013 the new president of the IET\\nGetting more women and young people engaged in tech and engineering is top of Professor Danielle George\\u2019s list as she takes over as the president of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). She joins Gareth and Bill on the programme live to discuss digital poverty and what the IET is doing to reduce it

Online recruitment scams during the pandemic\\nWhat would you do if you realised the job you\\u2019d applied for online didn\\u2019t actually exist? You\\u2019d think it would be easy to tell if you were being scammed \\u2013 but with the coronavirus pandemic forcing people out of jobs and to stay at home, police and cybercrime experts have been warning people how much easier it is to be lured in by recruitment fraud. Reporter Matt Murphy has been speaking to people who\\u2019ve been affected over the last few months.

The programme is presenter by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson.

(Image: Voyager 2. Credit: NASA)

Studio Manager: Giles Aspen\\nProducer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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