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Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months
Engineers finally received a status update from the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after identifying the cause of the aging probe’s five-month communication issue.
For the first time in five months, NASA engineers have received decipherable data from Voyager 1 after crafting a creative solution to fix a communication problem aboard humanity’s most distant spacecraft in the cosmos. While the signal wasn’t in the format the Voyager team is used to seeingwhen the flight data system is functioning as expected, an engineer with NASA’s Deep Space Network was able to decode it. Their exceptionally long life spans mean that both spacecraft have provided additional insights about our solar system and beyond after achieving their preliminary goals of flying by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune decades ago.
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