(CNN) — The Voyager mission team at NASA has been able to detect a signal from Voyager 2 after losing contact with the spacecraft, which has been operating for nearly 46 years. Each of the three giant dishes are equidistant, meaning that one is always in communication with different spacecraft as Earth rotates. One radio antenna is located at Goldstone near Barstow, California, the second near Madrid, and the third near Canberra, Australia. Now, the mission team will attempt to send a signal back to the spacecraft. “We are now generating a new command to attempt to point the spacecraft antenna toward Earth,” Dodd said.

Source: CNN August 02, 2023 01:21 UTC