NASA Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life Using 1981 Tech: NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief pause with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California reestablished contact with the spacecraft on October 24. This NASA spacecraft is in interstellar space at a distance of more than 15 billion miles. It experienced a brief interruption in communications on 16 October due to the outage of one of its…
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