12.3 Billion Miles Away: NASA Has Lost Communication With Voyager 2 Spacecraft
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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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~181,400,000,000 American football fields
~97,930,000,000,000 bananas (assuming 8 inch bananas)
My, we are feeling bold aren't we?
it's a warm day!
You've definitely done the TMI calculation, and surely corrected for yaw
For those using the metric system, that's 97930 gigabananas.
97.9 TB(anana)
For those using imperial units, that's 1 bananalamadingdong.
100.0 TiB(anana)
You mean 9793e10 bananas?
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.
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.
Doing my part to lower the average!