SPACE.com: NASA has lost contact with a small satellite in orbit that has been hunting for alien planets for more than two years.
ASTERIA, or Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics, is a briefcase-size Cubesat spacecraft that scientists developed to search for exoplanets using instruments and components shrunk down for the small satellite. Researchers also aimed for ASTERIA to show how such small craft can be used to hunt for exoplanets.
Engineers last heard from ASTERIA on Dec. 5, 2019, and then lost touch with it. Ground teams on Earth will continue to make contact attempts until March. Now, while ASTERIA is currently out of reach, the craft — which launched on Nov. 20, 2017 — did exceed its expected two-month time frame to reach primary mission objectives. The craft additionally flew through three mission extensions. read more
It’s on some shady little planet up on blocks all stripped down.
Huron, I found it on FB marketplace. They don’t have a title and it needs some TLC.
Crap. I guess we’ll never hear from that one again.
ASTERIA didn’t kill itself.
Is this satellite related to HAL by any chance?
Assimilated by the BORG.
Sand people?
Aliens have visited us before and want nothing to do with us.
In one of its last transmissions, ASTERIA declared itself to be the first gay NASA spacecraft. This means that at some point in the future it could be probing Uranus.
(Hey – somebody had to say it.)
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