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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.

The two-week outage was believed to be the longest Nasa had gone without hearing from Voyager 2.

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.

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.

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.

Voyager 2 has restored its communication with Earth months earlier than expected.

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.

NASA was able to repair the connection to its marathon probe "Voyager 2", which had been lost in the meantime. Because the U.S. space agency also has an "X" account, the news came via tweet.Contact was cut off when a series of planned commands on July 21 inadvertently caused the spacecraft's antenna to be pointed two degrees away from Earth. As a result, communication was interrupted, the probe was temporarily unable to send data or receive commands. The spacecraft is functio...