Later a series of command sequences was up-linked through the DSN station at Goldstone to divert the available solar array power into a partial charging of one of the onboard batteries. After some further 'spacecraft emergency' work the SOHO Recovery Team got the spacecraft to re-orient towards the Sun in the middle of September.
Researchers at the U.S. National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, used the facility's 305-meter dish radiotelescope (picture) to transmit a signal towards SOHO on July 23. The 70-meter dish of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone (USA), acted as a receiver, locating the spacecraft's echo and tracking it using radar techniques.
