Voyager 1’s flight data system collects information from the spacecraft’s science instruments and bundles it with engineering data that reflects its current ... s immense distance from Earth ...

This was the first software update made to a spacecraft in interstellar space. Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, face declining power levels due to the decay of their plutonium-238 power supplies ...

The uplink path loss over the current 23 billion kilometer distance to Voyager 1 exceeds 200 dB; on the downlink side, the DSN telescopes have to dig a signal that has faded to the attowatt (10-18 ...

In 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 took off ... the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion ...