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NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe started glitching last year, and scientists aren't sure they can fix it. NASA's interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft isn't doing so well — here's what we know : ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 is on a fraught and unknowable journey into deep space. Some 14.6 billion miles from Earth, it and its sister craft, Voyager 2, ...
It takes a radio signal nearly 22 hours to reach Voyager 1, which was 14.6 billion miles (23.5 billion kilometers) from Earth and growing farther by the second as of Aug. 30.
Voyager 1 — launched in 1977 and now over 15.6 billion miles from Earth — started out with 10 science instruments, but now has just three running after NASA turned off another gadget to ...
NASA gave Voyager 1 a 'poke' amid communication woes. Here's why the response was encouraging. The Voyager 1's mission was extended to 2025. But a communication breakdown in November put it in peril.
NASA managed to reconnect to the probe on October 24 using a radio not used since 1981, and on November 18, Voyager 1 resumed sending back data from its four operating science instruments on its ...
A Titan/Centaur-6 launch vehicle carries NASA's Voyager 1 at the Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 5, 1977. NASA The team eventually determined that the issue stemmed from one of the spacecraft’s ...
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977 and are NASA’s oldest and most distant robotic space travelers. An issue with Voyager 1’s code that began in November meant the spacecraft was unable to send ...
As of February 6, 2024, NASA reports that Voyager 1, more than 46 years into its journey, is approximately 15,148,155,240 miles from us. Voyager 2, meanwhile, ...
For the first time since it started sending nonsensical data in November, NASA says Voyager 1 is once again sending back information from all four scientific instruments. Voyager 1 remains undefeated.
The NASA Voyager craft have traveled through space, beyond the planets, for decades. Scientist Alan Cummings saw some of the first images returned to Earth.
The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) ...