NASA began communicating with Voyager 1 after experiencing transmission problems with the most distant spacecraft in mid-October.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or JPL, mission team discovered that Voyager 1 had entered fail-safe mode. After placing an order to turn on one of the spacecraft’s heaters on October 16,
Voyager 1 normally sends data back to Earth via X-Band radio waves
When the DSN antenna failed to detect a signal from Voyager 1 on October 18, the mission team assumed the spacecraft had entered a fail-safe mode that limits the rate at which data can be transmitted. sent back to Earth. and changed the data receiving network on Earth so that the signal from the spacecraft was detected again on the same day.
But on October 19, Voyager 1 stopped transmitting data using the X-Band frequency and switched to using the S-Band signal, which had not been used to communicate with Earth since 1981, and the crew mission concerned that there are signals in the S-Band. -Band frequencies may not be found on Earth. But engineers at the Deep Space Network detected a signal from the spacecraft again.
The Voyager 1 mission team has now confirmed that the S-Band transmitter is working and will be the main point of contact between Earth and the spacecraft, while JPL collects information on why the spacecraft went into failover mode to try to get Voyager 1 back to normal operation again
Voyager 1 and the two Voyager 2 spacecraft are the two most distant space exploration missions from Earth. It also carries out missions from interstellar space. Areas outside the influence of the solar wind and used scientific research equipment to send data back to Earth until now, for a total of more than 47 years since it left Earth in 1977.
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