NASA finally makes contact with Voyager 2 after the longest radio silence in the last 30 years

There has never been a radio silence like this. After long months with no way of making contact with Voyager 2, NASA has finally re-established communications with the record-breaking interstellar probe.

The communications disruption – which lasted since March, nearly eight months and an entire pandemic ago – was not due to some rogue malfunction, nor to an encounter with interstellar space oddities (though there is that too).