{"id":1987607,"date":"2023-08-01T09:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-thats-been-exploring-solar-system-more-than-40-years\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:56:42","slug":"nasa-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-thats-been-exploring-solar-system-more-than-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-thats-been-exploring-solar-system-more-than-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA loses contact with spacecraft exploring solar system for over 40 years."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnasa-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-thats-been-exploring-solar-system-more-than-40-years%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Lost Contact \u2064with Voyager\u2062 2: A Space Mishap<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a surprising turn of events, NASA has temporarily lost\u200c contact with the Voyager 2\u200c spacecraft. The mishap occurred when a wrong command was accidentally sent, causing a\u2062 slight tilt \u2062in the\u200b spacecraft&#8217;s antenna away from Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voyager 2, launched in 1977,\u2062 has been on a remarkable journey exploring the outer regions of our solar system. Currently located\u200c around 12 billion miles from\u2062 Earth, the spacecraft is unable \u200cto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-steals-up-to-600-billion-a-year-in-us-intellectual-property-experts-warn\/\" title=\"CCP Steals Up to 0 Billion a Year in US Intellectual Property, Experts Warn\">send data back<\/a> \u200bor receive commands, as reported\u2064 by\u2064 CBS\u2063 News. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/nasa-loses-communication-voyager-2-spacecraft-antenna-accident-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[source]<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u200bHowever, NASA remains\u2063 hopeful \u200dthat a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-loses-contact-with-spacecraft-thats-been-exploring-solar-system-more-than-40-years\/\" title=\"NASA loses contact with spacecraft exploring solar system for over 40 years.\">scheduled orientation reset<\/a> on October 15 will rectify the antenna&#8217;s position and restore communication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The antenna shift may have been a mere 2%, but it was enough to sever Voyager 2&#8217;s connection \u2062with NASA, according to the Associated Press. NASA&#8217;s dish antenna in Canberra, Australia, is diligently\u200d scanning for any stray signals from\u2063 the spacecraft, although the chances of success are uncertain. It \u200btakes over 18 hours for Voyager 2&#8217;s signal to \u200creach \u2063Earth. Meanwhile, NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-66371569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> that the spacecraft \u2063will continue its\u200c trajectory through the solar \u200csystem.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>The Voyager Mission: A Historic Exploration<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both Voyager 1 and Voyager\u2063 2 were launched in 1977 with \u200cthe primary mission of exploring Jupiter and\u2062 Saturn, as stated by NASA. Voyager 1, which \u200bis still in contact \u200cwith NASA, \u2063has traveled farther than \u2062any other spacecraft, reaching nearly 15 billion miles from Earth. Voyager \u200b2, on\u200c the other hand, embarked on an \u200dextended mission to explore \u200dUranus and Neptune, becoming the only \u200cspacecraft to\u2063 have \u200cvisited those outer planets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The current mission of the Voyager spacecraft,\u2063 known\u200d as the Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM), aims to explore the outermost edge of the Sun&#8217;s domain and beyond. These intrepid explorers have already \u2063made\u200b history by venturing into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/space-force-confirms-discovery-of-first-known-interstellar-meteor\/\" title=\"Space Force Confirms Discovery of First-Known Interstellar Meteor\">interstellar space<\/a>,\u2062 a region beyond the\u200c sun&#8217;s heliosphere. Voyager \u20621 achieved this milestone in August 2012, followed by\u2064 Voyager 2 in November \u20642018.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA lost contact with Voyager 2 due to an erroneous command that caused a slight tilt in its antenna away from Earth. Launched in 1977, the spacecraft is now approximately 12 billion miles away, exploring the outer regions of the solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1987608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}