Voyager 1 sends data to NASA after months-long blackout — What happened to the 46-year-old spacecraft?
Live Mint46-year-old Voyager 1 resumed interactions with NASA this week after months of “incoherent” communication. The most distant spacecraft from Earth had stopped sending understandable data last November due to a bad computer chip. The spacecraft had stopped sharing readable science and engineering data in mid-November last year even as it continued to receive commands and operate normally. Engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed in March that the issue was tied to one of the spacecraft’s three onboard computers — the flight data subsystem. Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecrafts to directly sample interstellar space — the region outside the heliosphere or protective bubble of magnetic fields and solar wind created by the Sun.
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After weeks of silence, NASA restores contact with Voyager 2 spacecraft
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