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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
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Voyager 1
According to NASA, the current problem began on October 16 when controllers sent a command to turn on one of the spacecraft’s heaters. Voyager 1, nearly a light-day distant from Earth ...
NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
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Aging Voyager 1 Restarts a Radio it Hasn’t Used Since 1981–Prompted from 15 Billion Miles Away
Recently, a days-long communication blackout was triggered after a radio command sent by Earth to turn on the probe's heaters ...
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Voyager 1 Spacecraft Just Shut Off Its Main Transmitter And Switched To A Long-Abandoned Signal
A software glitch is making NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft act a little bit haunted this Halloween season. On October 17, ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
As the spacecraft, launched in September 1977, ages, the team has slowly turned off components to conserve power, allowing Voyager 1 to send back unique science data from 15 billion miles (24 ...
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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's ...
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Voyager 1 spacecraft phones home with transmitter that hasn't been used since 1981
The backup radio transmitter has remained dormant for about 43 years. Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been ...
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NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
NASA first noticed the issue on October 16, when the Voyager 1 team sent out a command through NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN), which should have beamed instructions to Voyager 1’s heaters.
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NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
Meanwhile, Voyager 1 used Saturn as a gravitational slingshot to power itself past Pluto. Greg Wehner is a breaking news reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips and ideas can be sent to Greg ...