NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage
by FOX Weather
FOX Weather— 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...
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (.gov)—NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth. After some inventive sleuthing, the mission team can — for the first time in five months — check the health and status of the most distant human-made object in existence.
@sbsun—Voyager 1 sending data to Earth for 1st time in 5 months. Given Voyager 1’s immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.
San Bernardino Sun—Voyager 1 sending data to Earth for 1st time in 5 months. Given Voyager 1’s immense distance from Earth, it takes a radio signal about 22.5 hours to reach the probe, and another 22.5 hours for a response signal from the spacecraft to reach Earth.