NASA just found a spacecraft that’s been lost for two years

  • 8 years ago
Despite almost two years of silence, NASA never stopped searching for its long lost spacecraft STEREO-B.
Contact with the spacecraft - which works in tandem with a second spacecraft STEREO-A to study the sun - was lost in October 2014 during a test of one of its timers.
Scientists had been testing the timer when STEREO-B's line of sight and communication to Earth was blocked by the sun.
Now contact has been reestablished, the STEREO team will continue monitoring the spacecraft to see what kind of state it's in.