Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 06:15am on 31 Oct 2024,Thursday Science
NASA's Voyager-1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, briefly lost contact with Earth due to a technical issue. On October 16, a command to activate a heater triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system, shutting down its primary X-band transmitter. The system automatically switched to a backup S-band transmitter, last used in 1981. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team successfully reestablished communication on October 24, overcoming challenges posed by the weaker signal traveling 25 billion kilometers from Earth. The incident demonstrated Voyager-1's resilience and NASA's expertise in maintaining communication with the 45-year-old probe.
