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NASA has succeeded in reestablishing full contact with Voyager 2 by using its highest-power transmitter to send an "interstellar shout" that righted the distant probe's antenna orientation, the space agency said Friday. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and serve as a beacon of humanity to the wider universe, it is currently more…

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 probe's antenna orientation, the space agency said Friday.

The long-range one-way probe launched in 1977 and is far beyond our solar system, some 12 billion miles away

NASA's Voyager mission is nearing half a century of operation. How much longer will the pioneering deep space mission last, and when will we receive our final transmission from the spacecraft?

Commands sent on July 21 accidentally caused the spacecraft’s antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth and couldnt receive any commands from mission control.

In July a wrong command was made to the spacecraft, sent to explore space in 1977, changing its position and severing contact.

NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 on July 21 after it erroneously instructed the probe to point its antennae away from Earth.

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NASA scientists say they have now reestablished full communication with the Voyager 2 space probe after losing contact with the pioneering spacecraft last month.

NASA fully restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft