NASA establishes contact with STEREO mission

The DSN established a lock on the STEREO-B downlink provider at 6:27 p.m. EDT. The downlink sign became monitored by using the undertaking Operations crew over several hours to signify the mind-set of the spacecraft after which transmitter excessive voltage become powered down to keep battery electricity. The STEREO Missions Operations crew plans further restoration processes to evaluate observatory health, re-establish mind-set manage, and compare all subsystems and contraptions.

Communications with STEREO-B have been lost at some stage in a test of the spacecraft's command loss timer, a hard reset that is triggered after the spacecraft is going with out communications from Earth for seventy two hours. The STEREO team became trying out this characteristic in training for some thing referred to as sun conjunction, when STEREO-B's line of sight to Earth -- and therefore all verbal exchange -- was blocked by way of the solar.