The aging power-challenged Voyager 1 spacecraft suffered another glitch 2 weeks ago – it stopped calling home on its regular channel. Here is the sequence of events that transpired -

Oct 16 – Command sent to turn on a heater
Oct 18 – X-band signal lost; team surmised that the power-overload triggered the fault protection system and Voyager switched to a low-rate low-power X-band mode
Oct 18 – DSN looked for lower-rate X-band signal and found it
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https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/10/28/after-pause-nasas-voyager-1-communicating-with-mission-team/
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  • GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
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    5 days ago

    @AkaSci@fosstodon.org

    Which proves yet again the miracle of unmanned spacecraft.

    I’d really like to see billionaires, duplicate the same thing by shoving themselves into a tin can.