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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.
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 ...
Relative to the sun, Voyager 1 is traveling at just over 38,000 miles per hour, or about 10.6 miles per second. Voyager 2 is moving at 34,400 miles per hour—9.6 miles per second.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.