NASA working to regain contact with CONTOUR spacecraft

Mission controllers at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) in Laurel, Md., are attempting to regain contact with NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft, which went mysteriously silent Aug. 15 after it was scheduled to ignite its engine. CONTOUR's Star 30 solid-propellant...

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