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NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 probe is back in action after months of technical issues
NASA engineers have managed to get the long-running Voyager 1 space probe fully back in working order after some seven months of technical difficulties. In November 2023, the spacecraft — which is more than 15 billion miles from Earth — started sending back strange, , and the team has been working ever since to get […]
Voyager 1 is back online! NASA’s most distant spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments
All right, everyone — we can all breathe a sigh of relief. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is fully operational once more, with all four science instruments returning usable data to Earth. The problems began in November 2023, when Voyager 1 lost its ability to “speak” with us. More specifically, it started sending to Earth unintelligible data […]
NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is doing science again after problem
DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, is sending science data again. Voyager 1’s four instruments are back in business after a computer problem in November, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said this week. The team first received meaningful information again from Voyager 1 in April, and recently commanded it to […]
Ed Stone, who led NASA’s iconic Voyager project for 50 years, dies at 88
Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as the project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a trailblazer who dared mighty things in space. He was a dear friend to all who knew him, and […]
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Things are finally looking up for the Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft
I was once sitting with my father while Googling how far away various things in the solar system are from Earth. He was looking for exact numbers, and very obviously grew more invested with each new figure I shouted out. I was thrilled. The moon? On average, 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. The James Webb […]
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Things are finally looking up for the Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft
I was once sitting with my father while Googling how far away various things in the solar system are from Earth. He was looking for exact numbers, and very obviously grew more invested with each new figure I shouted out. I was thrilled. The moon? On average, 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away. The James Webb […]
Episode 110 —Voyager 1’s Brush with Silence
On Episode 110 of This Week In Space, Rod and Tariq talk with Linda Spilker, Voyager project scientist, about the recent rescue of Voyager 1 from beyond the solar system. The Voyager probes have been transiting space since 1977, and they’re still at it 46 years later. But late in 2023, Voyager 1, now 15 […]
Inside NASA’s 5-month fight to save the Voyager 1 mission in interstellar space
After working for five months to re-establish communication with the farthest-flung human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager 1 probe had finally phoned home. For the engineers and scientists who work on NASA’s longest-operating mission in space, it was a moment of joy and intense relief. “That Saturday morning, we all […]