In an update on X, JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Science said that it lost contact with Akatsuki 'after an operation in late April due to an extended period of low attitude stability control mode.'
Should the probe remain silent, however, its loss will mean that humanity will be cut off from its sole source of up-close observations of the strange, hellish planet.
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