Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with Voyager 1 from Across the Solar System
21
Nov. 2024
After more than four and a half decades exploring our solar system and beyond, Voyager 1 has had a challenging year. In November 2023, the spacecraft suddenly and unexpectedly stopped sending scientific and engineering data back to Earth, beginning a months-long process to diagnose and problem-solve with a spacecraft billions of miles away and built on systems designed in the 1970s.
Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 are the only spacecraft ever to operate outside the heliosphere and continue to provide valuable scientific data from interstellar space.
Speakers
Kareem Badaruddin
Voyager mission manager
Gregory Smith
communications and education directorate
Host
Calla Cofield
media relations specialist
Co-host