The US space agency Nasa is in contact with the spacecraft Voyager 2 can restore. After about two weeks without contact, all communication is running again – thanks to “some quick thinking and a lot of cooperation,” said NASA on Friday. The spacecraft is functioning normally and is still on its predicted route. An “interstellar scream” helped, according to NASA.
A space communication station in Canberra, Australia, sent the probe a signal over 20 billion kilometers and about 19 hours to orient its antenna back to Earth. 37 hours later, the confirmation came back that the action had worked.
Contact was lost when a series of scheduled commands on July 21 accidentally resulted in the spacecraft’s antenna being pointed two degrees away from Earth. voyager 1 – translated into German “the traveler” – was launched on September 5, 1977, Voyager 2 already on August 20, 1977. Both probes are unmanned. The probes were intended to explore planets in the outer solar system – but eventually even flew beyond the limits of the solar system.