{"id":152354,"date":"2022-12-10T01:25:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasa-loses-contact-with-252-million-icon-satellite-fears-total-system-failure"},"modified":"2022-12-10T01:25:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T07:25:15","slug":"nasa-loses-contact-with-252-million-icon-satellite-fears-total-system-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nasa-loses-contact-with-252-million-icon-satellite-fears-total-system-failure","title":{"rendered":"NASA loses contact with $252 million ICON satellite, fears total system failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-loses-contact-with-252-million-icon-satellite-fears-total-system-failure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The space agency said, \u201cthe lack of a downlink signal could be indicative of a system failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA has lost contact with a three-year-old satellite in Earth orbit. The space agency\u2019s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) lost contact with ground controllers two weeks ago and is orbiting Earth without a connection. NASA fears this may be due to a system failure that could mean it has lost contact with the satellite for good.<\/p>\n<p>ICON is an atmosphere-studying satellite that was operating beyond its intended lifetime before it lost contact on Nov. 25, NASA wrote in a blog post.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA<\/p>\n<p>The space agency\u2019s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) lost contact with ground controllers two weeks ago and is orbiting Earth without a connection. NASA fears this may be due to a system failure that could mean it has lost contact with the satellite for good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The space agency said, \u201cthe lack of a downlink signal could be indicative of a system failure.\u201d NASA has lost contact with a three-year-old satellite in Earth orbit. The space agency\u2019s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) lost contact with ground controllers two weeks ago and is orbiting Earth without a connection. NASA fears this may be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}