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Since November 14, Voyager 1 has not been sending back data collected by its scientific equipment. Hopes are fading it can be fixed.
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Since November 14, Voyager 1 has not been sending back data collected by its scientific equipment. Hopes are fading it can be fixed.
NASA's Voyager 1 deep space probe started glitching last year, and scientists aren't sure they can fix it.
Engineers are scrambling to save the storied spacecraft after it experienced an unforeseen glitch.
A communications glitch is preventing NASA's Voyager 1 probe — the farthest spacecraft from Earth in history — from sending home data, and mission scientists are growing concerned.
Part of the challenge is that it takes 45 hours to get a response from the spacecraft, which is 15 billion miles from Earth.