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 ...
Voyager 1 recently went silent, causing NASA to go into a bit of a panic. However, they’ve managed to reconnect to the radio transmitter, which is on the craft and more than 24 billion kilometers (15 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"The flight team suspected that Voyager 1’s fault protection system was triggered twice more and that it turned off the X-band transmitter and switched to a second radio transmitter called the S-band, ...
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 ...