It broke communication with NASA in mid-October, then restored contact in an unexpected way: a backup radio transmitter that had been inactive since 1981. “The spacecraft recently turned off one ...
Police are searching for the people who trashed a Jonesboro radio station’s tower building. Scott Siler, chief operating officer for EAB Media Group, told K8 News that KBTM’s transmitter site ...
When we think of a spark gap radio transmitter, most of us immediately imagine an early twentieth century ship’s radio room or similar. Most of us know these transmitters as the first radio ...
While the Voyager 1’s team were not sure whether the S-band signal could be detected, Deep Space Network engineers detected the signal and were able to locate the spacecraft NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager ...
Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth while engineers work to understand what went wrong. As the spacecraft, launched in ...
Earth’s interstellar explorer, Voyager 1, experienced some unanticipated communication hiccups. What’s interesting, though, is that Voyager 1 managed to dust off a backup radio transmitter that hasn’t ...
but it remains a common project for electronics or radio enthusiasts seeking to make a simple receiver. It’s most often seen for AM band receivers or perhaps shortwave ham band ones, but it’s ...