NASA reactivates Voyager 1 thrusters believed to be inactive for two decades
NASA Revives Voyager 1’s Roll Thruster After Long Silence NAVSA has successfully revitalized the Roll Thruster aboard the Voyager 1 spacecraft, a component that had been inactive for nearly two decades. It’s quite surprising, considering it was thought to have failed back in 2004. The significance of this revival is heightened by concerns that the […]
Interstellar Voyager 1 resumes operations after pause in communications with NASA
NASA has confirmed that the spacecraft has regained audio and resumed normal operations after communications with Voyager 1 ceased in late October. Voyager unexpectedly turned off its main radio transmitter, known as X-band, before turning on its much weaker S-band transmitter in October. The interstellar spacecraft is currently located some 15.4 billion miles from Earth, […]
NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft
NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating again since the most distant man-made object in the universe stopped sending available data back to the space agency about five months ago. Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles from Earth, stopped sending readable data to scientists on November 14, 2023, according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but […]