Voyager 1, NASA's furthest-traveling spacecraft, re-established contact after a brief communication gap by switching to a ...

Voyager 1 is currently 15 billion miles from Earth ... For example, if the spacecraft overdraws its power supply, fault protection will conserve power by turning off systems that aren’t essential for ...

Recently, a days-long communication blackout was triggered after a radio command sent by Earth to turn on the probe's heaters ...

The Voyager 1 and 2 probes have been on a remarkable journey ... but switching over was a delicate and careful process that required using significant power to warm them up first. There’s a trad-eoff ...

Communicating on the S-band uses less power, but its signal is also fainter, so if that was the case, NASA scientists weren’t sure whether they’d be able to detect it from Earth. Coupled with the fact ...

NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is reviving technology abandoned four decades ago to help keep its groundbreaking space ...