A team of astronomers tracked the powerful jet of the microquasar GRS 1915+105 with very long baseline interferometry during a period in which the system’s X‑ray emission was heavily obscured. Four high‑resolution observations – one with the Very Long Baseline Array and three with the European VLBI Network – were carried out between 2019 and 2021. The jet’s orientation on milliarcsecond scales changed dramatically. In the most extreme case the jet direction was measured 57 ± 8° away from the normal, pre‑obscuration axis that was previously defined as 142 ± 7°. The offsets varied among the epochs, from a compact source with a large deviation, to a flaring source with a comparable shift, to a more extended jet whose position angle was closer to the older mean, and finally to a non‑detection. The team found no evidence for rapid swings of the position angle within individual 8‑hour observing windows, effectively ruling out rapid Lense–Thirring precession of the inner accretion disc as the driver of the observed jet re‑orientation. The pattern of changes instead points to longer‑term processes, such as a radiation‑driven warp in the accretion disc, that could both cause the persistent obscuration and steer the jet over months.