NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’
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NASA’s Voyager 1 jumpstarts radio transmitter unused since 1981 to ‘phone home’

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical issue caused a days-long communication stall between Earth and the farthest-ever recorded spacecraft. The Voyager has been floating further and further away since its historic launch in…