Sadly, the space agency fears the worst. NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission has not communicated with ground stations since November 25 due to some sort of glitch the space ...

NASA recently lost contact with an atmosphere-studying satellite working beyond its design lifetime. NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) fell out of contact on Nov. 25, and the mission ...

NASA's ICON spacecraft has been out of contact since Nov. 25 after experiencing some kind of malfunction. Credit: NASA GSFC/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith WASHINGTON — A NASA space science spacecraft ...

On Nov. 25, 2022, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) team lost contact with the spacecraft. The ICON spacecraft is equipped with a built-in onboard command loss timer that will power ...

NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission has ended after nearly five years of advancing the understanding of Earth’s interface to space. The mission studied the outermost layer of ...