Voyager 1 is shouting across the cosmos again, following a glitch that had seen it inadvertently switch to its low-power ...
The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is 15 billion miles away from Earth. It stopped sending data but NASA managed to get it ...
The spacecraft—humanity's most distant probe—managed to resumed contact by switching to a secondary radio not used since 1981 ...
The mission, launched in 1977, became the first spacecraft to cross the boundary of the solar system by venturing into ...
The switch caused NASA to lose contact with the far-flying probe for a few days in October.
Unfortunately, it's also far fainter, and the crew feared that it could no longer be detected from this far away. After all, ...
After a temporary communication breakdown last month, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed normal operations. The team ...
“The flight team suspected that Voyager 1’s fault protection system was triggered twice more and that it turned off the ...
A month and a half ago, NASA suddenly lost contact with Voyager 1. Now everything is working normally again and the cause has ...
NASA / JPL-Caltech In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by taking advantage of a rare alignment of the outer planets ...
NASA’s Voyager 1, launched on September 5, 1977, has defied expectations and continued its journey for nearly 50 years. Originally designed to explore Jupiter and Saturn, the spacecraft has ventured ...