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Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence With NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 1981
The farthest spacecraft in the universe went momentarily rogue, but scientists breathed a sigh of relief when it reconnected ...
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Long ago, Voyager 2 might have caught Uranus at a bad time
Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...
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Looking Beyond Voyager 1 And 2
NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
NASA reconnects with interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft using technology not used in decades
NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered ...
NASA is now talking to Voyager 1 with a radio that hasn’t been used since 1981
Voyager 1 communications have once again hit a snap, with the interstellar probe somehow turning off its main radio ...
Phys.org on MSN9d
Still Kickin’ Since the ’70s: NASA’s Voyager Mission Keeps Exploring
NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN21h
Voyager 2 Measured a Rare Anomaly When It Flew Past Uranus, Skewing Our Knowledge of the Planet for 40 Years, Study Suggests
The roughly six-hour flyby in 1986 revealed Uranus' protective magnetic field was strangely empty. Now, researchers say that ...
Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...
Voyager 1 Ghosts NASA, Forcing Use of Backup Radio Dormant Since 1981
The spacecraft has inexplicably turned off one of its radio transmitters, likely because of an unidentified onboard issue.
NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’ from 15.4 billion miles into space
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 ...
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Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
NASA lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 spacecraft for nearly a week after a technical glitch shut off the probe's ...
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NASA’s Aging Voyager 1 Experiences Glitch In Interstellar Space
It’s how NASA’s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft ... It’s now spent 46 years in space, making Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 the longest-operating spacecraft in history.