Breaking Space News!!! NASA hears ‘heartbeat’ of Voyager 2 after losing communication. On July 21, NASA sent a series of planned commands to Voyager 2, which accidentally caused its antenna to shift two degrees away from Earth. This severed communications between the distant spacecraft and NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), an array of three radio antenna complexes equidistant from each other, located near Canberra, Australia; Madrid, Spain; and Barstow, California. Until the agency gets back in touch with the probe, it cannot receive commands, and it can’t send data back to scientists on the ground. “[Glitches] happen from time to time,” Glen Nagle, education and outreach manager at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, tells Julian Fell and Tahlia Roy of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “It’s always interesting when you have a spacecraft which is coming up to its 46th anniversary in a space mission only designed to last 12 years… It is aging and getting farther away from us every single day. We do know we’ll lose contact with the spacecraft sometime toward the end of this decade.” - Smithsonian Magazines. #breakingnews #nasa #jpl #stem #voyeger2 #spacenews #foryoupage