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 ...

The main concern revolved around the spacecraft's roll thrusters, which ensure its antenna remains pointed at Earth. Since 2004, Voyager 1 has ... Voyagers are the only man-made objects that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

If its thrusters fail completely, Voyager 1 could lose its ability to point its antenna toward Earth, therefore cutting off communication with Earth after nearly 50 years of operation. To make ...

[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 ...

As if that wasn’t dramatic enough, it currently takes around 23 hours for scientists’ command to reach Voyager 1, and then another 23 hours for the probe’s response to return to Earth.