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submitted 11 months ago by Woland@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

NASA’s Voyager 2 has lost communication with Earth due to an unintentional shift in its antenna direction. The next programmed orientation adjustment on October 15 is expected to restore communication, while Voyager 1 continues to operate as usual.

A series of scheduled commands directed at NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 21 led to an unintentional change in antenna direction. Consequently, the antenna moved 2 degrees off course from Earth, causing the spacecraft to lose its ability to receive commands or transmit data back to our planet.

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[-] Parabola@lemmy.world 162 points 11 months ago

As a software engineer I feel for the person who accidentally sent the wrong value and caused an icon to be offline, potentially forever.

[-] EnderWi99in@kbin.social 115 points 11 months ago

It's not going to be offline forever. It'll reorient in a couple months. It was designed to do this when comms are lost. Still a little scary though.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago

This assumes their understanding of what caused the problem is accurate.

Should it be ever so slightly imprecise, it could mean we lose contact forever.

[-] Resistentialism@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I don't think I'm prepared to lose another space robot.

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