Space & Spaceflight NASA’S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent The mission team lost contact with the ionosphere-probing spacecraft two weeks ago and hasn't heard from it since.

NASA's ICON mission gathered valuable data as it orbited the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, about 55 miles to 360 miles into space in the ionosphere, and provided critical breakthroughs on ...

NASA announced Dec. 7 that the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft has not communicated with ground stations since Nov. 25.

NASA's ICON satellite, well into an extended mission in space, fell silent on Nov. 25 and has not responded to calls from home.

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 ...