NASA regains contact with spacecraft after 2 yrs
US space agency NASA on Sunday re-established contact with its STEREO-B mission after nearly two years of communications silence. The team had lost its connection during a test of the ship's command lost timer on October 1st, 2014. STEREO-B (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) is one of two probes launched by NASA in 2006 to study the Sun and solar weather.