From Business Insider: "NASA accidentally lost contact with its Voyager 2 probe after sending a wrong command. It could mean the end of its 46-year-old mission." An excerpt:
NASA is scrambling to find Voyager 2, one of the most famous probes in space history, after losing contact with it when someone sent a wrong command.
The agency said Friday it hasn't been in contact with the probe since July 21 after "inadvertently" pointing its antenna away from Earth.
Voyager 2, which has been traveling through space for almost 46 years, is expected to be out of touch until at least October when an automatic maneuver could put the antenna back in line with Earth.
In the meantime, the probe is traveling 35,000 miles per hour through space and is 12 billion miles away from Earth.
I think it called back.
ReplyDeleteIf so, good. What I'd read was that it wasn't supposed to call back for several months.
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