It broke communication with NASA in mid-October, then restored contact in an unexpected way: a backup radio transmitter that had been inactive since 1981. “The spacecraft recently turned off one ...

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The spacecraft, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1977, is now using what is known as an S-band transmitter after the apparent shutdown of the X-band transmitter. NASA says that the bands are ...

Voyager 1 is now using a radio transmitter it hasn’t relied on since 1981 to stay in contact with its team on Earth while engineers work to understand what went wrong. As the spacecraft ...

Working through a puzzling shutdown of the spacecraft’s main radio transmitter, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reconnected with it on Oct. 24. This incident highlighted ...

This incident was triggered when a command to turn on a heater on October 16 caused Voyager 1 to shut down its primary X-band radio transmitter, switching instead to a backup S-band transmitter, which ...

Voyager 1 continues to amaze. After 47 years, having crossed together with its twin into interstellar space, you’d think the spacecraft would stop surprising us. No chance. The probe had another ...