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NASA's Voyager 1 Recovers After Brief Communications Pause
Original: NASA's Voyager 1 Conserves Power, Resolves Brief Communications Pause
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that Voyager 1, the most distant human-made spacecraft, briefly went quiet before engineers restored contact by conserving its limited power supply. The 47-year-old probe, flying through interstellar space billions of kilometers from Earth, reestablished communications after a planned or fault-related pause. The incident underscores ongoing concerns about the aging spacecraft's fading power as its plutonium generators continue to degrade each year.
Why now: Voyager 1 remains a beloved long-running space mission, so any hiccup in its communications draws wide attention
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