After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2 in interstellar space billions of miles away.
FILE - In this Aug. 4, 1977, photo provided by NASA, the"Sounds of Earth" record is mounted on the Voyager 2 spacecraft in the Safe-1 Building at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., prior to encapsulation in the protective shroud. After days of silence, NASA has heard from Voyager 2, more than 12 billion miles away in interstellar space. Flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command nearly two weeks ago that tilted the spacecraft's antenna away from Earth and severed contact.
The news “buoyed our spirits,” Dodd said. Flight controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California will now try to turn Voyager 2’s antenna back toward Earth. “That is a long time to wait, so we'll try sending up commands several times" before then, Dodd said. Still communicating and working fine, Voyager 1 is now 15 billion miles from Earth, making it the most distant spacecraft.
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