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

On Wednesday, NASA's Deep Space Network sent a new command in hopes of repointing the antenna, using the highest powered transmitter at the huge radio dish antenna in Australia. Voyager 2's antenna needed to be shifted a mere 2 degrees.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft was back chatting it up Friday after flight controllers corrected a mistake that had led to weeks of silence.

NASA sent a radio signal to Voyager 2, located billions of miles away in interstellar space, and restored communications with the spacecraft after an errant command caused a blackout.

NASA announced Friday that it has reestablished full communications with the Voyager 2 space probe after losing contact with the spacecraft last week.

Voyager 2 is floating somewhere in space, beyond our solar system after being launched in 1977. It temporarily lost touch with NASA last week but is reconnected now.

The mission continues for the Voyager 2, as it responds to a 'shout' from home by NASA. No more worries for one of the oldest spacecraft floating around in space, as the Voyager 2 successfully sent back a signal and started streaming data back to the home planet.

NASA's Voyager spacecraft zoomed by our solar system's planets decades ago and are now traveling through interstellar space, ultimate destination unknown. Yet the final transmissions from the two deep space craft loom increasingly closer. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977, were built to last five years. They've now beamed back cosmic information for over 46 years, a feat made possible by a hardy spacecraft and a clever group of NASA engineers. The Voyagers' nucle...

NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, resumed communication after a two-week outage caused by a wrong command and antenna misalignment

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