NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight engineers may have thought the 47-year-old mission had finally ...
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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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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Voyager 1 Stuck Using Low-Power Radio That Was Dormant for 43 Years
The latest Voyager glitch has forced the probe to fall back to an S-band radio that NASA can barely pick up from billions of ...
NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
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Voyager 1 Jolts Back to Life After NASA Lost Touch
At a distance of approximately 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 1 continues to push the boundaries of human exploration. At this distance, it takes almost a full day for a ...
NASA’s Voyager Shuts Down Plasma Sensor After 47 Years of Discovery
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were originally designed for a four-year ...
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Voyager 1 is forced to rely on its low power radio
Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that ...
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a technical issue caused a ...
NASA Engineers Restore Voyager 1 Communications After 15 Billion-Mile Transmission Disruption
NASA restores Voyager 1 contact, addressing transmitter shutdown. Voyager 1's fault protection system triggered communications loss. Engineers work to stabilise Voyager 1 at 15 billion miles from ...
Metis Technology Solutions prime contractor on $177 million NASA contract
Until now, the company has an annual contract revenue in the low $20 million range. This contract has the potential to double ...
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Icy moon of Uranus may have once hid watery secret, Voyager 2 archives reveal
Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.