NASA's "Interstellar Shout" Successfully Reestablishes Contact with Voyager 2
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NASA has successfully regained contact with Voyager 2, one of the only two probes providing valuable data on interstellar space. After losing contact on July 21st due to a misalignment, NASA "shouted" a command to the probe across 12.3 billion miles of space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth. It took 18.5 hours for the message to reach Voyager 2, and another 18.5 hours for NASA to receive science and telemetry data, confirming that the probe had received the command. Despite previous technical issues, NASA believes both Voyager 1 and 2 could remain in contact until 2036, but data collection on interstellar space may cease after 2025.
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