Spaceflight 🚀<p>📆 Jul 28, 2023 Operators of the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Voyager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voyager</span></a> 2 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spacecraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spacecraft</span></a> 🛰️ sent a series of commands that <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/inadvertently" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inadvertently</span></a> caused the distant probe to point its <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/antenna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antenna</span></a> 📡 slightly away from <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a>. As a result, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> has lost <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/contact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contact</span></a> 📶 with the spacecraft, which is nearly half a century old and presently 19.9 billion km away from the planet.</p><p>For the time being, NASA and the mission's scientists aren't <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/panicking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>panicking</span></a> 😱 <a href="https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/nasa-temporarily-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-most-distant-spacecraft" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/</span><span class="invisible">nasa-temporarily-loses-contact-with-one-of-its-most-distant-spacecraft</span></a></p>