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submitted 1 year ago by Woland@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world

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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[-] Cyanococcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago

~181,400,000,000 American football fields
~97,930,000,000,000 bananas (assuming 8 inch bananas)

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

assuming 8 inch

My, we are feeling bold aren't we?

[-] cole@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago
[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

You've definitely done the TMI calculation, and surely corrected for yaw

[-] FlowVoid@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago

For those using the metric system, that's 97930 gigabananas.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] FlowVoid@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago

For those using imperial units, that's 1 bananalamadingdong.

[-] heeplr@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

100.0 TiB(anana)

[-] fushuan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You mean 9793e10 bananas?

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

The weird thing to me is that that's only about 23 football fields per person on earth. In other words, if each of us walks a mile and a half, all together we will have moved further than Voyager 2.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn't the average person like walk a mile and a half everyday? That's around 4,000 steps which apparently I do without even knowing about it.

[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Doing my part to lower the average!

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