{"id":165336,"date":"2023-06-07T17:26:14","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasa-awoke-voyager-1-from-14-6-billion-miles-away-and-the-spacecraft-responded"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:26:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:26:14","slug":"nasa-awoke-voyager-1-from-14-6-billion-miles-away-and-the-spacecraft-responded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/nasa-awoke-voyager-1-from-14-6-billion-miles-away-and-the-spacecraft-responded","title":{"rendered":"NASA awoke Voyager 1 from 14.6 billion miles away, and the spacecraft responded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-awoke-voyager-1-from-14-6-billion-miles-away-and-the-spacecraft-responded.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1977, NASA\u2019s Voyager probes continue their exploration, pushing the boundaries of human understanding. Earlier this year, NASA faced an unsettling situation when Voyager 1, second of the pair to be launched, began sending back distorted communications. This sparked worries about a significant system failure in the spacecraft, now 45 years into its journey. However, NASA recently reported that it had successfully rectified the problem, which in turn has uncovered another mystery to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Voyager 1\u2019s journey began with a \u201cGrand Tour\u201d of the outer planets \u2014 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune \u2014 enabled by a unique planetary alignment. After its journey past Jupiter and Saturn, Voyager 1 outran its twin, Voyager 2, eventually becoming the first man-made object to leave the solar system in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble began when NASA detected issues with the craft\u2019s attitude articulation and control system (AACS), responsible for ensuring the probe\u2019s antenna stays pointed towards Earth. Failure of this system could result in a permanent loss of communication with the aging explorer. While this system returned scrambled updates, the probe was still transmitting valuable data, signaling that something was amiss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 1977, NASA\u2019s Voyager probes continue their exploration, pushing the boundaries of human understanding. Earlier this year, NASA faced an unsettling situation when Voyager 1, second of the pair to be launched, began sending back distorted communications. This sparked worries about a significant system failure in the spacecraft, now 45 years into its journey. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}