A mateur astronomers in Dwingeloo in the northeastern Netherlands have picked up a signal from NASA's ailing Voyager 1 spacecraft, around 24.9 billion kilometers (15.5 billion miles) away.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft communicates with Earth using a 1981 backup transmitter. Discover the challenges and significance ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is functioning normally again after the aging probe’s dwindling power supply triggered a ...

Voyager 1 is shouting across the cosmos again, following a glitch that had seen it inadvertently switch to its low-power ...

Because of the great distance between Voyager 1 and Earth, however, transmissions on the S-band antenna could not be heard by NASA's Deep Space Network, meaning that Voyager 1 had effectively ...

Voyager 1 in particular had a serious issue with its communications system this year that prevented it from transmitting science data for months. But now, following some very careful fixes ...

NASA's aging Voyager 1 spacecraft has resumed regular operations, sending useful science data back home from about 24.9 billion kilometers (15.4 billion miles) away. The Voyager probes ...

NASA engineers solve thruster issues on Voyager 1, enabling continued space exploration beyond 15 billion miles.