NASA Finds ‘Lost’ Space Probe

After losing communication with a space probe two years ago, NASA says it has reestablished contact. NASA said it lost contact with the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatories, known as the STEREO-B spacecraft, on Oct. 1, 2014, but that on Aug. 21, the Deep Space Network (DSN) established a link with the craft. Contact with the probe was lost after a maneuver to try to prevent overheating of the ship’s antenna. STEREO-B is the sister craft to STEREO-A, both of which were...

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