{"id":122038,"date":"2024-11-04T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122038"},"modified":"2024-11-04T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T11:05:46","slug":"nasas-voyager-1-jumpstarts-radio-transmitter-unused-since-1981-to-phone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122038","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to &#8216;phone home&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn\u2019t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical issue caused a days-long communication stall between Earth and the farthest-ever recorded spacecraft. <\/p>\n<p>The Voyager has been floating further and further away since its historic launch in 1977 and along with its twin craft, the Voyager 2, the pair are the only two spacecraft to operate in interstellar space, the region between stars.  <\/p>\n<p>Together, the pair have explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and 48 of their moons and even carry a message from Earth on a phonograph record should they encounter any form of life in distant space, <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/voyager\/mission-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to NASA.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Voyager 1 is the farthest spacecraft from Earth, extending far beyond even Pluto\u2019s orbit and outside the heliosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Now having strayed 15.4 billion miles away from Earth, its time is likely coming to a close, but the inaugural spacecraft isn\u2019t going down without a fight. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption>A model of NASA\u2019s Voyager spacecraft, a satellite in space with a satellite dish, exploring the outer regions of our solar system since 1977. <span class=\"credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Deep Space Network engineers still operating Voyager 1 from home have steadily been turning off components to conserve power as long as possible so that the spacecraft can continue to send untapped science data from the depths of the solar system. <\/p>\n<p>The communication issue is one of several to have plagued the aging spacecraft in recent months, but the team keeps finding innovative solutions to press onward. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Scientists working in the Voyager Control Center at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1980. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The blackout was originally sparked by a heater malfunction on Oct. 16, which in itself is a double-edged sword. The heater is used to warm parts of the Voyager that have sustained radiation damage in interstellar space, but doing so degrades the performance of its components, Bruce Waggoner, the Voyager mission assurance manager, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/01\/science\/voyager-1-transmitter-issue\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">CNN<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft suddenly shut down all nonessential systems when the heater was turned on, forcing it to draw more power than it was capable of. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annotated diagram of NASA\u2019s Voyager space probe showing its various parts and instruments. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The spacecraft shut down its X-band, one of its two radio transmitters. Its other transmitter, S-band, hasn\u2019t been used since 1981 because of its weaker signal. Even so, the S-band still had the capability to reach Earth, the Voyager 1 team confirmed on Oct. 24, and will be used as the primary transmitter until the X-band is back up. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Voyager 1 image from 1980 showing two mosaic rings of the planet Saturn. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the switch in transmitters is a handy hack it\u2019s not a permanent solution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe S-band signal is too weak to use long-term,\u201d Waggoner said. \u201cSo far, the team has not been able to use it to get telemetry (information about the health and status of the spacecraft), let alone science data. But it allows us to at least send commands and make sure the spacecraft is still pointed at Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/04\/science\/nasas-voyager-1-jumpstarts-radio-transmitter-unused-since-1981-to-phone-home\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn\u2019t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical issue caused a days-long communication stall between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122038\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}