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.
At 38,000mph, it will be approximately 80 billion miles away from Earth in 2271. That’s .013 light years from Earth. Future generations may pass it by while staring out the window and laugh at how archaic our technology was.
No may, they will definitely laugh at most of it. “What do you mean they had to use their eyes to watch videos? It wasn’t just beamed directly into their head?”