[Red Badger]

V-ger ping!.................

[texas booster]

Thanks for posting this.

I first read of this on The Register but haven’t had time to post it.

[Paladin2]

If they issued a reset command, it could take a while to observe success on the other side.

[CodeToad]

“Scientists think the situation is only temporary because the craft is programmed to auto-correct its orientation several times each year in order to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth. Its next planned reorientation is set for Oct. 15.”

Very cool, but I can only imagine it says, “Um...my data set of stars doesn’t go out this far.”

[tet68]

Was it caused by a bad command or by passing close to those
two planets as both were stated by the article?

[cyclotic]

One of my sons is an Astronautical Engineer at NASA. His first mission was flight operations on a solar observation satellite. Some years before, an on-board gyroscope broke and the spacecraft turned away from earth. They set up a program to call out in case it ever righted itself. A couple years later, it did and they were back in business.

The satellite first went live the year he was born and was supposed to be operational for 2-3 years. He began working on that mission as a college student and the satellite was still operating.

[Carl Vehse]

"... the craft is programmed to auto-correct its orientation several times each year in order to keep its antenna pointed toward Earth."

Let's hope the same idiot(s) who sent the commands that "inadvertently caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth" weren't the same ones who programmed the spacecraft to auto-correct its antenna orientation several times a year.

Also let's hope some of the programmers didn't write program code lines that measure the antenna angle in degrees, while some other programmers' program code determined the antenna angle in radians.

[SuperLuminal]

""A series of planned commands sent to NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 21 inadvertently ...."

Clearly, million man march math plus education in government schools has long term consequences...

"inadvertently" == "stupidly" or "moronically"
Wokeness & diversity rule!

[Ezekiel]

meant to serve as an ambassador of human civilization to any extraterrestrial intelligence it may encounter.

🤔

[butlerweave]

NASA’s Diversity

[dragnet2]

A fantastic spacecraft and historic achievement!

[citizen]

Lemme see....1977....15 billion miles....hmmm....gonna take it a while longer to get somewhere.

[DouglasKC]

Not Voyager but aliens are going to be shocked that there are more than 2 genders now...

[George J. Jetso]

Of course this was caused by global warming. Where is saint Greta?

[chrisser]

Wasn’t there a similar plot in Big Bang Theory?

[Lurker]

“Send more Chuck Berry.”

L

[doorgunner69]

[mabarker1]

What about the radiation belts ? Did the cause any of this problem ? Or did someone forget to pick the Metric, Standard or British Standard ?

[zeugma]

The Voyager probes are absolutely amazing examples of American Know How. Viking was pretty robust as well. They actually turned Viking off so they wouldn’t have to continue spending money to support the mission. It never actually failed. I think just the daily weather reports from that craft would have been worth having.

[Vaduz]

Technical Glitch = Human Error

Someone sent the wrong command that adjusted the antennas 2 degrees away from craft and stopped responding now working to gain control.

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