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submitted 1 year 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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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We're talking about the most proverbially gone shit in human history. Not only is it too far away, it is going faster than any man-made object has ever gone.

...And we once launched a massive metal disc out of a giant bore hole with a nuclear explosion.

Edit: actually Operation Plumbbob sent the steel bore cap nearly 4x as fast as Voyager. Suck it, nerds.

[-] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The fastest man-made object would be the NASA Parker Solar Probe spacecraft which reached a speed of 535,000 kilometers per hour...0.05% of the speed of light

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Holy shit, that's significantly faster than a steel plate that was launched by a nuke and subsequently vaporized. Insane. Thank you

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