On July 21, NASA mistakenly sent a series of commands to the probe that titled its antenna away from Earth.
The JPL flight controllers will make an effort to send a fresh set of commands to realign Voyager 2's antenna towards Earth. However, Dodd mentioned that the probability of the command's success is not very high.
The Voyager 2 software is programmed to automatically reset its orientation at specific times of the year. This allows the spacecraft to keep its antennae pointed toward the Earth at all times. The next automatic re-orientation will take place on October 15. At that distance, the signal takes approximately 18.5 hours to travel one way across the solar system to the spacecraft.
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