'Voyager 2' Launched in 1977 to explore the wider universe, and reach (19.9 billion kilometers) away from our earth
On july 21, by mistake some wrong commands send by technical team then it the antenna to point two degrees away from Earth and result in facing problems in send and receive signals and endangering its mission.
The situation was same remain upto October 15 and Voyager 2 was scheduled to command of automated realignment maneuver.
NASA engineers took help of Deep Space Network to send commands to probe.
Deep Space Network uses highest power transmitter to send technical command to 'Voyager 2' on a specific time when 'Voyager 2' have antenna moved across earth.
"interstellar shout"- guide the antenna direction.
NASA fired "interstellar shout" command to control over probes antenna direction towards earth location to contact.
Time for "interstellar shout" command is 18.5 hours traveling at light speed to move acrross Voyager, and then 37 hours to understand its working rate.
Its works and on 4th august, NASA successfully contacted gain to voyager 2.
'Voyager 2' is the first and alone man made spaceship to visit Uranus and Neptune.
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