Next hardware reset and automatic reorientation for Voyager 2 is October 15th. Yes the device automatically resets itself about four to five times a year. Communications are expected to be reestablished then.
Someone ran ‘systemctl restart networking’ while SSH’d into the probe.
Unrelated but I’ve been wondering this for years: What’s your avatar from and why do so many people across the web have that exact same one?
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/02/1191341035/nasa-voyager-2-spacecraft-contact
Sounds like it’s a recoverable error (if the scientists can’t do it the spacecraft has an automated process that’ll kick in in October.) Still, I can’t imagine what that must feel like.
https://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/04noaanreport/
Probably a lot like the person responsible for dropping the NOAA-19 satellite.