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Voyager 1 Spacecraft : Started Sending Readable Communications

Kumari Sonali

Voyager 1 Spacecraft : Started Sending Readable Communications

NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun sending readable communications again after months of transmitting gibberish back to Earth.

  • NASA’s Voyager flight team detected a glitch in November and worked to fix the problem via code, leading to the successful return of readable data.
  • Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977.
  • Voyager 1 is part of the Voyager program, which also includes Voyager 2.
  • Objective is to study the outer Solar System and beyond, including flybys of Jupiter and Saturn.
  • It discovered a thin ring around Jupiter and two new Jovian moons: Thebe and Metis.
  • At Saturn, it found five new moons and a new ring called the G-ring.
  • Voyager 1 was the first human-made object to cross the heliosphere and enter interstellar space in August 2012.
  • It is the most distant human-made object from Earth and is expected to send data until at least 2025.

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