After eight months, one of the furthest travelled human artifacts in existence has made its first return call: to Canberra

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Updated April 14 2021 - 11:23pm, first published November 15 2020 - 8:00am
A refurbished dish and cone at Tidbinbilla's Deep Space Tracking Station has reconnected with the Voyager 2 spacecraft on its long, lonely mission into deep space. Picture: Supplied
A refurbished dish and cone at Tidbinbilla's Deep Space Tracking Station has reconnected with the Voyager 2 spacecraft on its long, lonely mission into deep space. Picture: Supplied

From the cold and lonely depths of interstellar space, Voyager 2 has made its first response to planet earth in eight months, with the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla receiving the much-awaited signal.

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Peter Brewer

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