CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has finally heard back from Voyager 1 again in a way that makes sense. The most distant spacecraft from Earth stopped sending back understandable data last November. Flight controllers traced the blank communication to a bad computer chip and rearranged the spacecraft’s coding to work around the trouble. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California declared success after receiving good engineering updates late last week. The team is still working to restore transmission of the science data. It takes 22 1/2 hours to send a signal to Voyager 1, more than 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) away in interstellar space. The signal travel time is double that for a round trip. Contact was never lost, rather it was like making a phone call where you can’t hear the person on the other end, a JPL spokeswoman said Tuesday. |
My top diet tricks to lower your blood pressure WITHOUT taking pillsMet Gala raises more than $26 million to fund Costume InstituteJewish student is ordered to leave Oxford encampment after refusing to sign up to radical proStormy Daniels: Takeaways from Trump hush money trial testimonyMarquette athletic director Bill Scholl plans to retire as he ends a decadeRita Ora coyly covers her breasts as she and husband Taika Waititi return to their hotel at 5amMarquette athletic director Bill Scholl plans to retire as he ends a decadeBeraldo selected in central defense for PSG to face Dortmund in Champions League semifinalJudge in Trump's classified documents case cancels May trial dateReport says Chiefs' Rashee Rice suspected of assault weeks after arrest over high