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NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 after 'interstellar shout'

IndiaTimes Saturday, 5 August 2023
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. Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and serve as a beacon of humanity to the wider universe, it is currently more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from our planet -- well beyond the solar system.
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 NASA has finally managed to reestablish contact with the Voyager 2 spacecraft following two weeks of silence after flight controllers sent a wrong command to the spacecraft that titled its antenna away from earth.To reposition the antenna, NASA's Deep Space Network sent an "interstellar shout" on...

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