Dish in Canberra, Australia, deployed to find interstellar spacecraft after flight control pointed its antenna away from Earth
Nasa is listening for any peep from Voyager 2 after it lost contact with the spacecraft billions of miles away.
Hurtling ever deeper into interstellar space, Voyager 2 has been out of touch ever since flight controllers accidentally sent a wrong command more than a week ago that tilted its antenna away from Earth. The spacecraft’s antenna shifted a mere 2%, but it was enough to cut communications.
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