Search for silent CONTOUR spacecraft continues

Using the 34-meter antennas in NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN), mission controllers continued in vain to contact the Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft Aug. 16. CONTOUR went silent the day before after it was scheduled to execute a 50-second burn of its ATK Thiokol-built solid rocket motor. The...

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