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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Briefly Reconnects, Keeping Hope Alive for the Historic Mission
The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent a new signal that contains valuable data, which may save the aging probe. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently looking for discrepancies in the message in order to find out why the spacecraft—the farthest piece of human technology from Earth—has been speaking gibberish for the past few months.…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Is Speaking Gibberish
NASA’s iconic space probe is having trouble communicating with its home planet due to a computer glitch, forcing engineers to resort to decades-old manuals to come up with a way to fix the 46-year-old mission. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is now more than 24 billion kilometres away from Earth. The spacecraft has been exploring the…
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NASA Detects ‘Heartbeat’ Message From Voyager 2 After Inadvertently Losing Contact
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, currently 12.4 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometres) from Earth, has phoned home, essentially telling mission controllers that the recent rumours of its impending death have been greatly exaggerated. The ongoing communications problem, however, remains unresolved. In a mission update tweeted earlier today, JPL announced that the Deep Space Network (DSN) snagged…
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Voyager 1 Space Probe Is Suddenly Sending NASA Wacky Data
Voyager 1 is nearly 14.5 billion miles from Earth and continues to hurtle out of the solar system at about 61,155 km per hour. But NASA engineers working on the 44-year-old spacecraft have recently been vexed by the probe’s articulation and control system, which is generating data that appears to be completely random.