NASA Restores Voyager 1 Communications After Power Struggle in Deep Space

Voyager 1 is Back Online Again, but NASA’s Iconic Probe is Losing Something it Crucially Needs to Remain Operational - The Debrief

NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 probe is back online after the spacecraft experienced another pause in communication last month. In an update on November 26, the American space agency confirmed that the probe had resumed its regular operations following an unexpected shutdown of its primary radio (X-band) transmitter, opting instead to engage its comparatively weak S-band transmitter. Voyager 1, currently located at an incredible 15.4 billion miles from…

Nuclear Hearts Of NASA’s Voyager Probes Are Dying Taking The Crafts With Them

After launching into space almost 50 years ago, NASA’s Voyager probes are reaching the end of their lives. The nuclear batteries onboard the two spacecraft are running out of juice, which means NASA is counting down the days until the death of Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 by slowly shutting off systems one by one.Read more...

Voyager 1 is back online 15 billion miles away in interstellar space. But the end could be near

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a communications blackout. It’s one of several challenges faced by the spacecraft this year.

Voyagers Ready to Go Dark

When the two Voyager probes launched into space in 1977, they were headed to uncharted territory. It was the first time humanity had sent robot spacecraft to study up close the four giant outer planets of our solar system: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Stunning images and scientific data captured by the probes over the next few decades altered our understanding of the cosmos. Through the Voyagers, we learned of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosp…

The Voyager Probes Are Dying

My Battery Is Low NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have long left the farthest reaches of the solar system, entering interstellar space in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The pair were originally intended to study the solar system's outer planets when they launched in 1977. But both have outgrown their original missions, flying through the darkness of space over 15 billion miles away, far beyond those planets they were originally tasked with observ…

The End Is Near for NASA’s Voyager Probes

The two probes have left the solar system and are still collecting data from the interstellar environment—but their atomic hearts are growing weaker and weaker.