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Due to human error, the legendary spacecraft is currently unable to receive commands or transmit data back to operators, the US space agency has said.

Voyager 2 is the successor to Voyager 1 and second spacecraft to enter interstellar space.

Voyager 2 is managed by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is the only craft to have visited either Neptune or Uranus - our Solar Systems ice giant planets.

Voyager 2 rocketed into space in 1977, along with its identical twin Voyager 1, on a quest to explore the outer planets.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft’s antenna away from Earth and severed contact. NASA’s Deep Space Network, giant radio antennas across the globe, picked […]

NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft is drifting through interstellar space after a communications breakdown left it unable to receive commands from Earth.

NASA's distant Voyager 2 probe has sent a "heartbeat" signal to Earth after mission control mistakenly cut contact, the US space agency said Tuesday.But on Tuesday, Voyager project manager Suzanne Dodd told AFP the team enlisted the help of the Deep Space Network -- an international array of giant radio antennas, plus a few that orbit Earth -- in a last-ditch effort to re-establish contact sooner.

NASAs Deep Space Network has picked up signals from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away. The space agency lost contact with the spacecraft after it was sent wrong commands, accidentally.

On July 21, a series of planned operations were sent to the distant space probe. Unfortunately, the commands inadvertently caused the craft to shift its position ever...

The deep space probe lost contact with Earth earlier this week.