The interstellar spacecraft is currently located about 15.4 billion miles away from Earth and the S-band had not been used in over 40 years. Communication between NASA and Voyager 1 has been ...

A side effect of upgrades to an Earth-based antenna that sends commands to Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, the communications pause could have occurred when the probe faced a critical issue ...

Voyager 1 is more than 15 billion miles (25 billion kilometers) from Earth, while Voyager 2 is over 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) away, according to NASA. Both probes are the only ...

The iconic space probe Voyager 1 was the first man-made object to escape the solar ... Due to radio transmissions taking nearly a full day to reach Earth from beyond the solar system, NASA didn ...

While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal is significantly fainter.

[This article originally appeared in print as "Interstellar Man."] Stone had come of age just as NASA ... at a distance of 9 billion miles from Earth. Voyager 2, pointing almost 90 degrees away from ...