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NASA temporarily loses contact with one of its most distant spacecraft | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

About a week ago, operators of the Voyager 2 spacecraft sent a series of commands that inadvertently caused the distant probe to point its antenna slightly away from Earth. As a result, NASA has lost contact with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet.

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