Good news! NASA has regained contact with Voyager 2 after losing it for a week after accidentally pointing it the wrong way
, the manager of the Voyager project at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, in a statement sent to. While catching the signal was unexpected, the fact that the spacecraft itself is fine wasn’t a big surprise – it has been scudding along for 46 years, after all.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.But if anything were to go wrong, we would have no way to send any commands to Voyager 2 while the antenna is pointed away from Earth.
Even if it doesn’t work, all is not lost – Voyager 2 is programmed to automatically reset its orientation a few times a year in case of situations just like this one. The next automatic reset will be on 15 October, and communication should resume then. Until then, the spacecraft’s operators will keep trying to turn it around and continue to monitor the heartbeat signal.
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