NASA Engineers Restore Voyager 1 Communications After 15 Billion-Mile Transmission Disruption

NASA successfully reconnected with Voyager 1 after an unexpected communication disruption caused by a shutdown of the spacecraft’s primary transmitter. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California pinpointed the cause as Voyager’s fault protection system, which manages power by shutting down non-essential systems. With a secondary transmitter rest...