NASA long shot re-establishes full communication with Voyager 2 probe after accidental error causes loss of contact.
NASA lost contact with the probe last month after mistakenly sending it a command that caused it to shift the direction of its antenna by 2 degrees. The agency had been unable to communicate with it since then.
Oops. You'd think they'd be perhaps a bit more careful about the instructions they send to the probe given its astounding distance from the Earth.
On Tuesday, scientists said they had detected a "heartbeat" signal from the craft.
Voyager 2 now is now operating as designed as it continues on an interstellar mission that began 46 years ago.
Scientists sent the long-distance signal from the Deep Space Network facility in Canberra, Australia.
"With a one-way light time of 18.5 hours for the command to reach Voyager, it took 37 hours for mission controllers to learn whether the command worked," NASA said in its update.

 

 

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-mission-update-voyager-2-communications-pause