Following recent communication issues, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft resorted to using a backup radio transmitter that has been inactive since 1981. The interstellar explorer experienced a brief ...

Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft is relying on an old radio transmitter.

Aging spacecraft starts up a radio transmitter it hasn’t used since 1981 from 15 billion miles away. Story by Ashley Strickland, CNN • 1w. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter.

After some clever problem-solving, the team was able to switch Voyager 1 back to its X-band radio transmitter and receive its daily stream of data again starting in mid-November.

Scientists communicate with both Voyager probes by using a radio transmitter that operates on X-band frequencies, within a range of 8 to 12 gigahertz, via NASA’s Deep Space Network, a web of ...

The space agency reconnected with Voyager 1 five days later using a radio transmitter that the probe hadn’t used since 1981. Voyager 1 remains humanity’s furthest outpost, hurtling across ...

NASA artist's concept of a Voyager spacecraft in deep space (main) and stock image of the solar system (inset). Voyager 1 briefly lost contact with NASA due to a radio issue.

Voyager 1 relays messages to NASA’s mission control team after losing contact due to a technical issue. The aging spacecraft is relying on an old radio transmitter.