The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...

At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space, Voyager 1 won't last much longer. In fact, NASA's flight ...

NASA first noticed the issue on October 16, when the Voyager 1 team sent out a command through NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN ...

On October 16th, Voyager 1's fault protection system kicked in, a safety measure designed to preserve the spacecraft's ...

The spacecraft has inexplicably turned off one of its radio transmitters, likely because of an unidentified onboard issue.

NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's ...

When the flight team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California sends instructions to the spacecraft via the ...

Launched in 1977 and now more than 15 billion miles from Earth, NASA’s Voyager 1 recently encountered an operational issue ...

Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn't relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth.

Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to a backup radio transmitter that has been ...