Interstellar articles
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NASA re-establishes communication with Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft that went silent for months
NASA and Voyager 1 are communicating back and forth again, after the most distant human-made object in space stopped sending usable data back to the space agency nearly five months ago. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Voyager 1, which is more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, stopped sending readable data back to scientists on Nov. 14, 2023, though mission controllers could still see the spacecraft was receiving commands and operating as intended. The Southern California-based...
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Jessica Chastain says a lot of kids have been named after her 'Interstellar' character — but a baby-naming site disagrees
Maybe they’re not gravitating to it after all.
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft resumes sending data to Earth from interstellar space after 5-month outage
Cheers and applause erupted this weekend when NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft sent back the first usable data from interstellar space after a five-month communication gap. Engineers with Voyager's flight team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have been troubleshooting an issue since November, when the spacecraft, more than 15.1 billion miles from Earth, began sending back nonsense computer code. On Saturday, after 45 hours of waiting to find out if their plan to send the...