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Watch this space: The Chandrayaan-3 mission left Earth's orbit in the same week that NASA regained contact with Voyager-2.

Only Russia, the US and China have so far soft-landed spacecraft on the moon

After two weeks of not hearing anything, we’re back to getting unique data from the interstellar medium, says Linda Spilker, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2023 - NASA has succeeded in re-establishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an interstellar shout that righted the distant probes antenna orientation, the space agency said Friday.

NASAs Voyager 2 was lost in space because of a mixed signal, but a command dubbed an "interstellar shout" beamed across billions of miles has restored contact with the spacecraft after two weeks of silence.

Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago.

The space agency lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 when the mission team accidentally sent a command that pushed the spacecraft’s antenna 2 degrees away from Earth.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft is back in contact again after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

NASA scientists are breathing a sigh of relief as data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft is again being received. The long-range one-way probe launched in 1977 and is far beyond our solar system, some 12 billion miles away.

NASA has successfully "reestablished full communications" with Voyager 2, an interstellar deep space probe which the agency sent offline with a faulty command two weeks ago.