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

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

Earlier, Nasa’s detected a heartbeat signal from Voyager 2, which is currently trekking billion miles away in space

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.

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 for interstellar aircraft, 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 space...

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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