{"id":198724,"date":"2024-11-03T02:22:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/after-signal-loss-voyager-1-reconnected-with-earth-using-retro-transmitter-not-used-since-1981"},"modified":"2024-11-03T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:22:25","slug":"after-signal-loss-voyager-1-reconnected-with-earth-using-retro-transmitter-not-used-since-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/after-signal-loss-voyager-1-reconnected-with-earth-using-retro-transmitter-not-used-since-1981","title":{"rendered":"After signal loss, Voyager 1 reconnected with Earth using retro transmitter not used since 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-signal-loss-voyager-1-reconnected-with-earth-using-retro-transmitter-not-used-since-19812.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Voyager 1 reconnected with Earth using a backup transmitter inactive for over 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 probe, the most distant human-made object, briefly lost contact with Earth between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24 due to an unexpected shutdown of its main radio transmitter. This signal loss occurred after a command sent to power one of Voyager\u2019s heaters unintentionally triggered the probe\u2019s fault protection system. As a safeguard, the fault protection system automatically powers down non-essential functions when the spacecraft detects an overdraw of its power supply or other malfunctions. Engineers have since reestablished contact through Voyager 1\u2019s backup S-band transmitter, which hadn\u2019t been used since 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voyager 1 reconnected with Earth using a backup transmitter inactive for over 40 years. NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 probe, the most distant human-made object, briefly lost contact with Earth between Oct. 19 and Oct. 24 due to an unexpected shutdown of its main radio transmitter. This signal loss occurred after a command sent to power one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198724","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}