NASA re-establishes contact with missing spacecraft
August 23, 2016 23:28
Despite almost two years of silence, NASA never stopped searching for its long lost spacecraft STEREO-B.
This week that determination paid off.
NASA announced Sunday that it had re-established contact with STEREO-B after communications were lost in October 2014.
Contact with the spacecraft -- which works in tandem with a second spacecraft STEREO-A to study the sun -- was lost during a test of one of its timers.