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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life Using 1981 Tech

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15 Billion Miles Away, NASA’s Voyager 1 Comes Back to Life Using 1981 Tech

NASA’s 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft recently established contact with Earth after a brief halt with the help of a radio transmitter that has not been used since 1981. NASA engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California re-established contact with the spacecraft on October 24. The spacecraft, which is in interstellar space over 15 billion…

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Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

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Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos

Collision with NASA spacecraft altered shape of asteroid Dimorphos. | Photo Credit: Reuters When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object’s trajectory, if needed, to protect Earth. It turns out that this collision changed not…

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