CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense.
The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data.
It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away in interstellar space. The signal travel time is double that for a round trip.
Contact was never lost, rather it was like making a phone call where you can’t hear the person on the other end, a JPL spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Former Green Bay player Kayla Karius leaves South Dakota to return to her alma mater as coach
Hamas weighs ceasefire proposal
Doggy ballgowns, surveillance tech and cloning services for sale at China pet fair
$8 billion US military aid package to Taiwan will 'boost confidence' in region: president
Homicide investigation launched after body found in Hastings
Homicide investigation launched after body found in Hastings
Funding needed to take show aimed at disabled communities around Aotearoa
Epiphanny Prince retires from basketball after a 14
Pioneering observation satellite ERS
Beyonce goes hell for leather black fringed pantsuit as she poses on an 18
Taiwan's remaining Pacific allies pledge support