{"id":1987610,"date":"2023-08-01T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-sent-wrong-command-to-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-in-long-shot-attempt-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T09:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:57:45","slug":"nasa-sent-wrong-command-to-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-in-long-shot-attempt-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-sent-wrong-command-to-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-in-long-shot-attempt-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA sent an incorrect command to Voyager 2. Deep Space Array will now bombard its position in a long-shot attempt to fix the issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/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-sent-wrong-command-to-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-in-long-shot-attempt-to-fix-it%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=1987610&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--><h2>NASA\u200c Races \u2064Against\u2064 Time to Restore Contact \u200dwith Voyager 2<\/h2>\n<p>NASA \u200cis on high alert as it desperately tries \u200bto regain \u2064contact with Voyager 2,\u2062 the spacecraft currently\u200c billions of miles \u200daway \u200din <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>.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a critical mistake by flight controllers caused Voyager 2 to lose communication with Earth. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nasa-sent-wrong-command-to-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-in-long-shot-attempt-to-fix-it\/\" title=\"NASA sent an incorrect command to Voyager 2. Deep Space Array will now bombard its position in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/air-mario\/\" title=\"Air Mario\">long-shot attempt<\/a> to fix the issue.&#8221;><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.\">wrong command<\/a> inadvertently tilted<\/a> the spacecraft&#8217;s antenna away from our\u2063 planet, resulting in a loss \u2062of \u200dcontact. Although the antenna only shifted by a\u2064 mere 2 percent, \u2063it \u2064was enough to sever communications.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the \u200cslim chances of \u2062success, NASA has deployed its massive dish antenna\u200d in Canberra, Australia, to scan for any faint signals from Voyager 2. The spacecraft is currently over 12 billion miles away, meaning it takes more than 18 hours for a signal to travel that distance.<\/p>\n<p>In a bold move, NASA&#8217;s \u200dDeep Space Network plans to bombard Voyager 2&#8217;s vicinity with \u2063the correct \u200dcommand in the\u2062 hopes of reestablishing \u2062communication. This operation will be carried out in\u2062 the coming week, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which oversees the Voyager missions.<\/p>\n<p>If this\u2064 attempt \u200bfails, NASA will \u200dhave to \u2062wait until October for an \u2063automatic spacecraft reset that is expected to restore communication.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 was designed to explore the outer planets, closely followed by \u2063its twin, Voyager 1.\u200c While Voyager 2\u200b is currently out of touch, Voyager 1 remains in contact \u200bwith Earth and holds the record as humanity&#8217;s most distant spacecraft, nearly 15 billion \u2062miles away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western\u200d Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and \u200bmay have altered \u200cit prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-nasa-just-sent-wrong-command-voyager-2-deep-space-array-will-begin-bombarding-position-long-shot-attempt-fix\/\">NASA Sent \u2064Wrong Command to Voyager 2 &#8211; Deep \u2062Space Array Will Begin Bombarding Position in Long-Shot Attempt to\u2064 Fix\u2063 It<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is searching for any sign of life from Voyager 2, which lost contact billions of miles away. As it ventures further into interstellar space, the spacecraft has been silent since a mistaken command caused its antenna to turn away from Earth over a week ago. The fate of Voyager 2 remains uncertain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1987611,"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":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"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\/1987610","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}