NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 after mistake led to weeks of silence
Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space billions of miles away, Voyager 2 stopped communicating two weeks ago.
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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.