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NASA has restored contact with Voyager 2. The spacecraft, which has been touring away from Earth since 1977 and is now in interstellar area, misplaced contact with Earth not too long ago after its antenna was inadvertently commanded to level within the mistaken route. NASA’s Deep House Community was able to restore contact with the spacecraft this week, confirming that the second-most distant spacecraft from Earth remains to be operational. Pictured: An artist’s idea of Voyager 2. Picture credit score: NASA/GSFC Conceptual Picture Lab.

NASA’s subsequent New Frontiers mission may face an prolonged delay. The company mentioned this week that it may not be able to move ahead as planned with the subsequent competitors spherical of the New Frontiers planetary science mission class. The Senate’s proposed NASA finances allocates $700 million lower than NASA requested for its planetary science packages in fiscal yr 2024.

Argentina has joined the Artemis Accords. Argentina is the twenty eighth nation to sign the Accords, which set forth finest practices and norms of conduct for area actions. This comes after a current surge in new signees, together with the Czech Republic and Spain in Could and Ecuador and India in June.

A brand new report exhibits that the majority People consider within the significance of planetary protection. A new study from the Pew Analysis Heart surveyed People’ attitudes towards area and located, amongst different outcomes, that monitoring probably harmful asteroids ranks on the high of the general public’s precedence checklist for NASA. Different high priorities embody local weather change analysis and primary area science analysis