Last month, NASA briefly lost Voyager 1 in the expanse of interstellar ... In this case, the casualty was its X-band radio transmitter, the spacecraft's main line of communication with Earth.
Then, on October 19, Voyager 1 fell silent again. The team speculated that the probe might have completely turned off its ...
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft nearly 12 billion miles from Earth is still phoning home from interstellar space, and a new NASA photo captures that radio signal as pale blue speck in a cosmic ocean.