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One light day: Voyager's long farewell

One light day: Voyager's long farewell

Update: 2024-09-24
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The Voyager space probe is sailing through space, far beyond earth's solar system. It is humanity's most distant messenger. And then last year it fell silent. NASA's scientists somehow navigated a 15 billion mile hurdle to bring it back online. This is the story of how and why.


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One light day: Voyager's long farewell

One light day: Voyager's long farewell