NASA finally makes contact with Voyager 2 after longest radio silence in 30 years – Livescience.com

There’s never been a radio silence quite like this one. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the record-setting interstellar spacecraft.
The breakdown in communications lasting since March, almost eight months and a whole pandemic ago wasn’t due to some rogue malfunction, nor any run-in with interstellar space weirdness (although there’s that too).
In this instance, it was more a case of routine maintenance. And yet, when…

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