Posted on 07/05/2015 5:27:45 AM PDT by MNDude
NASA said its New Horizons probe suffered a temporary communication breakdown on Saturday, 10 days before it's scheduled to fly past Pluto, and the mission team is working to restore normal operations.
In a mission update, NASA said the team lost contact with the piano-sized probe at 1:54 p.m. ET, when it had less than 7.5 million miles left in its 3 billion-mile journey to the dwarf planet. The spacecraft's autopilot system switched control from its primary to its backup computer and restored communications at 3:15 p.m., NASA said.
There's one big complication: Because New Horizons is so far away, it takes four and a half hours for a set of signals to be sent to the spacecraft, or for the spacecraft to send signals back to Earth. Full recovery could take one day or several days, depending on the nature of the problem, NASA said. Until then, New Horizons is unable to collect science data.
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When it exited the neutral zone, the Plutons hacked the craft and cut off the signal
We aren’t supposed to know what’s on nights Plutonian. Shore.
Headline: New Horizons spacecraft sees strange black spots on Pluto’s equator.
Disappearance coincidence? I think not.
Too close to Europa?
Space ping!.........
Just another one of those pesky Monoliths.
“Anomaly”
A great euphemism.
Pluto lifted his leg
Thanks Red Badger, extra to APoD.
lol!
Talk about perfect timing. After nearly a decade of flawless navigation, we get this. The Gods of Pluto are angry at the invasion of their privacy.
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