Hopes dim for CONTOUR after telescopes see possible debris

Mission controllers have stopped sending commands to NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft and are waiting and listening for transmissions, after several telescopes over the weekend took images apparently showing the spacecraft broken into two pieces. CONTOUR went silent Aug. 15 after it...

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