NASA reestablished contact with Voyager 1 using an old transmitter after a two-day loss.

NASA reestablished contact with Voyager 1 after a two-day communication loss by using a dormant 1981 S-band transmitter. The spacecraft, located 25 billion kilometers away, switched to this transmitter when its primary X-band transmitter was shut off to conserve energy. Voyager 1 and its twin are humanity's only interstellar explorers but are expected to stop collecting data by 2025 and drift out of contact range by 2036.

November 25, 2024
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