--- title: NASA Connects with Spacecraft After 2-Year Silence description: NASA reestablished contact with its STEREO-B spacecraft on Sunday, almost two years after losing communication with it Oct. 1, 2014 canonical: https://time.com/4462654/nasa-spacecraft-contact-stereo-b/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-23T14:20:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:08:40.355Z article:section: Science og:title: NASA Reestablishes Contact with Spacecraft After 2-Year Silence og:description: Scientists lost contact with the spacecraft on Oct. 1, 2014 og:url: https://time.com/4462654/nasa-spacecraft-contact-stereo-b/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e8314114712ea02/6988a34e656a3f3088bccd5e/nasa-spacecraft-lost-stereo-b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: NASA reestablished contact with sun-watching STEREO mission og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NASA Reestablishes Contact with Spacecraft After 2-Year Silence twitter:description: Scientists lost contact with the spacecraft on Oct. 1, 2014 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5e8314114712ea02/6988a34e656a3f3088bccd5e/nasa-spacecraft-lost-stereo-b.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NASA Reestablishes Contact with Spacecraft After 2-Year Silence > Sponsored content. 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NASA/EPA  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Aug 23, 2016 2:20 PM UTC NASA [reestablished contact with its STEREO-B spacecraft](http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-establishes-contact-with-stereo-mission) on Sunday, almost two years after losing communication with it Oct. 1, 2014. The spacecraft is part of NASA’s [Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO)](http://www.nasa.gov/mission%5Fpages/stereo/main/index.html), which aims to study the sun and space weather. NASA used its Deep Space Network, which tracks and communicates with missions throughout space, to receive a signal from STEREO-B. Scientists lost contact with it after intentionally resetting the spacecraft in 2014 in order to angle its antenna away from the sun because it risked being overheated, [the Verge reported](http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/22/12589406/nasa-stereo-b-spacecraft-contact-deep-space-network). 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