NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact
Thirty-five years after its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space. It was followed out of our cosmic quarters by its space-faring sibling, Voyager 2, six years later in 2018. Voyager 2, thankfully, is still operational and communicating well with Earth.
A broken computer chip scrambled data transmissions from Voyager 1. Here's how engineers worked from afar to fix the problem.
"We've got a neighborhood that we live in, our neighbors occasionally come and visit," Professor Chris Lintott told Newsweek ...
NASA’s Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object ever sent into space with a current approximate distance of 15 billion ...
NASA's Voyager 1 probe, the most distant human-made object from Earth, has resumed transmitting usable data to mission ...
Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, are the only spacecraft to venture into interstellar space, the area between stars ...
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