NASA Restores Communications with Voyager 1

Universe Today— The mission team at NASA JPL has fixed the communication problem with Voyager 1 and now it's sending back good data to Earth.

FOX News—NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months. 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...

TechSpot—NASA resumes communications with Voyager 1 probe after remote fix, 15 billion miles from Earth. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed that Voyager 1 remains in good health. The team has identified the issue affecting the probe's ability to transmit valuable scientific data back to Earth, and engineers are now working to implement the necessary fix to reroute communications "around" the malfunctioning chip foundRead Entire Article

Los Angeles Times—After months of silence, Voyager 1 has returned NASA's calls. For the last five months, it seemed very possible that a 46-year-old conversation had finally reached its end. Since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has diligently sent regular updates to Earth on the health of its systems and data collected from its onboard instruments. But in November, the craft went quiet. Voyager 1 is now some 15 billion miles away from Earth. Somewhere in the cold interstellar space between our sun and the closest stars,...