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We may earn a commission from links on this page. The issue emerged when the Voyager 1 flight team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a command to the probe to turn on one of its heaters.

So, instead, a command was sent to the S-band transmitter on Oct. 22. Two days later, on Oct. 24, the team was finally able to reconnect with Voyager 1. Now, the team will investigate what may ...

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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 ...

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.

Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft is relying on an old radio transmitter.