Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981
Scientists lost contact with the interstellar Voyager 1 probe from Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, after a technical malfunction forced the spacecraft’s main radio transmitter to shut down, NASA officials wrote in a blog post. Engineers have since established contact with Voyager 1’s weaker backup transmitter, which hasn’t been used since 1981, while they assess […]