NASA Looks To Regain Communications With Voyager 2

NASA Voyager

An artist concept depicting one of NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Voyager 2, one of NASA’s most distant and longest-lived spacecraft, has lost its ability to transmit data to Earth and receive commands through the agency’s Deep Space Network (DSN). The inadvertent 2-deg. misalignment of the probe’s communications antenna with Earth occurred during a July 21...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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