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It says it will now work toward bringing Voyager's abilities to transmit science data back online to continue its original mission. The mission's sister probe Voyager 2, meanwhile, is still ...
The spacecraft launched in 1977 and is now 15 billion miles from Earth. It went silent in November. Scientists at JPL figured out how to get it talking again.
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.
These seven messages have targeted stars between 20 and 69 light-years from the Earth. The exception is the Arecibo message, which targeted globular cluster M13, approximately 24,000 light-years away. The first message to reach its destination will be A Message From Earth, which should reach the Gliese 581 planetary system in Libra in 2029.
Voyager 1 and the other probes that are in or on their way to interstellar space, except New Horizons. Voyager 1 transmitted audio signals generated by plasma waves from interstellar space. On September 12, 2013, NASA officially confirmed that Voyager 1 had reached the interstellar medium in August 2012 as previously observed. The generally ...
The probe is expected to keep transmitting weak radio messages until at least the mid-2020s, more than 48 years after it was launched. [87] NASA says that "The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way." [93] Voyager 2 is not headed toward any particular star. The nearest star is 4.2 light-years away, and at 15.341 km ...
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, both launched in 1977, were built to last five years. They've now beamed back cosmic information for over 46 years, a feat made possible by a hardy spacecraft and a clever ...