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12.3 Billion Miles Away: NASA Has Lost Communication With Voyager 2 Spacecraft (scitechdaily.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s 100% a good idea, it just shouldn’t be privately owned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But private companies can do things public companies can't do!^1^

Because private companies don't have the GOP actively sabotaging them whenever they are in power so that they can argue that private companies work better than public ones.^2^
Unless your private company supports groups that the GOP hates.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Very well. What government would you like to trust with this that can pull it off?

The US government? Heck I am confident that somewhere deep in federal bowls is my entire porn viewing history with my name on it. Also the US government only has SLS so to launch these they would have to build a new rocket or give the launch contracts to, well you guessed it SpaceX. Unless of course there is some more lobbying in which case ULA (Boeing) or Bezos. Tell me which poison you would prefer.

Russia? Seriously? Not even as a joke.

China? Maybe Russia wasn't such a bad pick.

The minor space powers? South Korea, India, Israel, Japan? Even combined they couldn't.

That just leaves the ESA (basically France and Luxembourg) which they are multiple years away from finishing their reusable rocket and only have one big launch site.

I am not against the idea of some government deciding that being an ISP to oceans and rural areas would be a good service and a nice revenue stream I just don't see which government can do it and be trust too.