NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months

FOX News— NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating back and forth again, after the most distant human-made object in space stopped sending usable data back to the space agency nearly five months ago. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Voyager 1, which is more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, stopped sending readable data back to scientists on Nov. 14, 2023, though mission controllers could still see the spacecraft was receiving commands and operating as intended. The Southern California-based...

FOX Weather—NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage. Cheers and applause erupted this weekend when NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back the first usable data from interstellar space after a five-month communication gap. Engineers with Voyager's flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have been troubleshooting an issue since November, when the spacecraft, more than 15.1 billion miles from Earth, began sending back nonsense computer code. On Saturday, after 45 hours of waiting to find out if their plan to send the...

Phys.org—NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet. NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.

Japan Today—NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet. NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA’s