Wired·3 min read·medium
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
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Brian Kahn
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Wildfires in Spain have threatened a critical NASA deep space communications observatory, forcing the evacuation of personnel. While the facility's status is being assessed, NASA has successfully rerouted mission operations to a site in California to ensure continuity.
Climate change has now become a problem for the whole solar system. On Friday, wildfires in Spain overran one of three observatories the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses to connect with spacecraft, including Voyager 1, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the recently completed Artemis mission around the Moon.
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