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What is a spacecraft 23 billion kilometers from Earth doing?
The twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 continue to explore the universe 45 years after launching from Earth and 22 light hours away from the planet.
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How long does it take to reach another star system besides the Solar System?
A group of physicists decided to estimate how long it would take us to reach other star systems in the Milky Way using existing spacecraft.
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NASA's Farthest Flying Spacecraft Is Dying
The Voyager 1 spacecraft, nearly 25 billion kilometers from Earth, continues to experience problems as its power supply on board gradually runs out.
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How was a spacecraft 25 billion kilometers from Earth 'resurrected'?
The Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft has had to resort to using an old radio transmitter to contact NASA after experiencing a signal failure.
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From outside the Solar System, Voyager 1 still sends data back to Earth
Forty-seven years after its launch, Voyager 1 continues to bring back important data from outside the Solar System.
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NASA updates Voyager software from 12 billion miles away
Some 46 years after NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 began their epic journey of space exploration, the probes' aging software continues to be updated remotely.
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NASA spacecraft 24 billion km away transmits data after 6 months of problems
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is back to normal operation after a serious problem last November left the spacecraft unable to transmit data for months.
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NASA's fight to save a spacecraft 24 billion kilometers away
For about 5 months, experts tried every way to fix the error and restore communication for Voyager 1, a ship that had been operating for nearly half a century.
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NASA found a malfunction on a spacecraft 24 billion km away
Voyager 1 has been transmitting meaningless data since late November last year because a chip on board could have been hit by a high-energy particle.
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NASA received a communication signal from a spacecraft 24 billion kilometers away
After a long period of communication problems with Voyager 1, NASA for the first time received a meaningful signal from a spacecraft flying in interstellar space.
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NASA engineers are having to search for manuals from 45 years ago to fix the problem of Voyager 1
Voyager 1 is a 722 kg spacecraft operating beyond the Solar System and beyond, launched on September 5, 1977.
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In the past 10 years, what have been done in space science?
Let's take a look back at the most outstanding achievements of space science in the period 2010 - 2019, to see how far we have come in exploring the vast vast universe o…
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NASA transmits its first signal from interstellar space
NASA's Voyager 2 helps scientists determine where to end the influence of the solar wind and start interstellar space.
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7 fastest objects humanity ever built
With the development of science and technology, mankind has created many fast-moving objects that surpass imagination
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The fastest plan to build a spacecraft exceeds the solar system
The Johns Hopkins University team hopes the spacecraft more than 320,000 km / h will reach the interstellar space by 2070 at the latest.