NASA’s Voyager 2 Resumes Communications With Earth

Mark Carreau August 06, 2023
NASA Voyager

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

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Voyager 2, approaching the 46th anniversary of its launch to the outer Solar System, is once again transmitting and receiving data following a July 21 loss of communications due to an inadvertent command that prompted the probe to point its antenna away from Earth. The resumption of...
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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