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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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[-] zalack@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol. The knee-jerk contrarianism online really gets under my skin, especially when it's towards experts.

Like yeah, sometimes experts are wrong or systems don't behave as expected. But framing that as some sort of erudite insight really bugs me.

"I hope the recovery system works!" doesn't need to be rewritten as "Mmm yes. But what these engineers haven't considered is the possibility that they are wrong".

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I had a laugh at this line:

It's just restating the table stakes of existence.

Brilliantly put. It's like saying to a stranger on an airplane, "If these pilots don't know how to fly, we are gonna die!"

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Plot twist... he is the lead engineer on the team.

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

No but the experts could be right or wrong. Two possibilities so that means there's a 50/50 chance.

/s

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