NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
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Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away
NASA said. While Voyager 1’s team wasn’t sure that the faint S-band signal would be detectable due to the spacecraft’s distance from Earth, Deep Space Network engineers located it.
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A radio transmitter not used since 1981 is helping Voyager 1 send messages to Earth
NASA said. While Voyager 1’s team wasn’t sure that the faint S-band signal would be detectable due to the spacecraft’s distance from Earth, Deep Space Network engineers located it.
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Voyager 1 Stuck Using Low-Power Radio That Was Dormant for 43 Years
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