NASA hears from Voyager 1, the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after months of quiet
Tuesday, 23 April 2024 () NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers in California traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft's coding to work around the problem. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore the science data. Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. Its twin, Voyager 2, is more than 12 billion miles away and still working fine.
NASA Reestablishes , Connection With Distant , Voyager 1 Space Probe.
The news comes after engineers at
the agency worked for months
attempting to fix the 46-year-old probe.
In December, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
said that the probe, now a staggering 15 billion miles
away from...
Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program. It was intended to study the outer planets of our solar system. Voyager 1 conducted flybys of Jupiter..
SpaceX's Third Test of Its , Starship Succeeds Ahead, of Crewed Lunar Mission.
'The Independent' reports that SpaceX's third test of its
Starship has ended successfully, with the spacecraft
falling..
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Tuesday, 23 April 2024 ()
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