Voyager 1, launched in 1977, is humanity's farthest spacecraft, providing groundbreaking data about the outer planets and interstellar space. Its signal, a faint yet powerful transmission ...

On October 18, Voyager 1 missed its scheduled return call. NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scanned for the signal and eventually found it on a slightly different frequency band. It seems that the ...

Voyager 1 is almost 13 billion miles away. Its signal takes more than 19 hours to reach Earth, and the power of that signal is less than 1 trillionth of a watt when it hits the DSN. The RSS used ...

“So it takes a lot of analysis and a lot of review to pull a weak signal out of the noise of the instrument,” says Dodd. In 2012, JPL received data from Voyager 1 to help engineers calibrate ...

After more than forty-six years all of us are likely to feel the wear of time, and Voyager 1 is no different. Following months of harrowing troubleshooting as the far-flung spacecraft stopped ...

Scientists weren't sure whether this plan would work, as Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981 - and the S-band transmits with a weaker signal. However, it did - and they ...

Saying farewell is hard, and in the case of the Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft doubly so, seeing as how they have been with us for more than 47 years. From the highs of the 1970s and 1980s during their ...