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 solution was transmitted from Earth on Apr. 18, but due to the vast distance ... being the only current viable option. This successful remote repair of Voyager 1 highlights NASA’s ongoing ...

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 ...