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NASA’s Voyager Has Made a Full Recovery After Glitch Nearly Ended the Historic Mission
Voyager fans, rejoice! The 46-year-old spacecraft is once again probing interstellar space for cosmic wonders following a seven month-long hiatus. NASA announced that its iconic mission is back to normal operations, with all four of its instruments returning science data for the first time following a technical issue that first began in November 2023. Voyager…
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NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Briefly Reconnects, Keeping Hope Alive for the Historic Mission
The Voyager 1 spacecraft sent a new signal that contains valuable data, which may save the aging probe. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are currently looking for discrepancies in the message in order to find out why the spacecraft—the farthest piece of human technology from Earth—has been speaking gibberish for the past few months.…
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Vintage Voyager Data Reveals Plasma Jets in Jupiter’s Magnetosphere
There are jets in Jupiter’s magnetosheath, according to Voyager 2 mission data from 1979. The 45-year-old information is now revealing the dynamics of the plasma stream. You may remember Voyager 2. It launched in August 1977 and is now 12.66 billion miles from Earth, hurtling out into interstellar space. It is the second-most-distant object humans…
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NASA Detects ‘Heartbeat’ Message From Voyager 2 After Inadvertently Losing Contact
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, currently 12.4 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometres) from Earth, has phoned home, essentially telling mission controllers that the recent rumours of its impending death have been greatly exaggerated. The ongoing communications problem, however, remains unresolved. In a mission update tweeted earlier today, JPL announced that the Deep Space Network (DSN) snagged…